Re: Bound by the three oaths, can you can lie if you make it a question? As in "I am not Black Ajah?
Ptolomaeus Send a noteboard - 25/11/2009 04:23:06 PM
Interesting Argument. I'm still waiting or my copy of TGS to arrive (ordered it last week).
I think the 3 oaths involve more what you believe to be the truth than how you frame the statement. Think of it like an internal polygraph. How can you lie to yourself? It has nothing to do with whether someone will perceive what you say as a lie, but whether you perceive your own words as a lie. A psychiatrist bound by the 3 oaths couldn't question her way past the truth by answering a quetion with a question. An Aes Sedai bound by the 3 oaths cannot willingly lie, but knows that an omission isn't a lie.
I think the 3 oaths involve more what you believe to be the truth than how you frame the statement. Think of it like an internal polygraph. How can you lie to yourself? It has nothing to do with whether someone will perceive what you say as a lie, but whether you perceive your own words as a lie. A psychiatrist bound by the 3 oaths couldn't question her way past the truth by answering a quetion with a question. An Aes Sedai bound by the 3 oaths cannot willingly lie, but knows that an omission isn't a lie.
Bound by the three oaths, can you can lie if you make it a question? As in "I am not Black Ajah?
- 22/11/2009 06:01:54 AM
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If you were intentionally trying to deceive someone, then no, you coldn't *NM*
- 22/11/2009 11:19:30 AM
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Throughout the series sisters have chosen their words to deceive, why would context matter. *NM*
- 22/11/2009 03:20:37 PM
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Let's just say this is a real world with a real language for a moment.
- 22/11/2009 10:47:40 PM
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In real world you assume when I ask the question that I am not trying to deceive
- 23/11/2009 04:05:38 PM
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Re: Bound by the three oaths, can you can lie if you make it a question? As in "I am not Black Ajah?
- 25/11/2009 04:23:06 PM
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I think the oaths so vague and depend on the morality of the speaker
- 25/11/2009 06:27:19 PM
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