between bullshit and lying
excerpted from On Bullshit, by Harry G. Frankfurt
...she is not concerned with the truth-value of what she says. that is why she cannot be regarded as lying; for she does not presume that she knows the truth, and therefore she cnanot be deliberately promulgating a proposition that she presumes to be false: Her statement is grounded neither in a belief that it is true nor, as a lie must be, in a belief that is not true. It is just this lack of connection to a concern with the truth--this indifference to how things really are--that I regard as the essence of bullshit.

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hahha,
Jesse, have you seen the Penn and Teller's show appropriately named "Bullshit"--on Showtime? HI-larious.
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