Harry Gordon Frankfurt on Liar and Bullshitter

„The fact about himself that the liar hides is that he is attempting to lead us away from a correct apprehension of reality; we are not to know that he wants us to believe something he supposes to be false. The fact about himself that the bullshitter hides, on the other hand, is that the truth-values of his statements are of no central interest to him . . . He does not care whether the things he says describe reality correctly. He just picks them out, or makes them up, to suit his purpose.“

Harry Gordon FrankfurtHarry G. Frankfurt distinguishes liar and bullshitter: the liar obscures reality, the bullshitter ignores truth.
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Harry Gordon Frankfurt was an American philosopher and professor at Princeton University.

A concise comparison between liar and bullshitter, highlighting the significance of truth and intention.


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Quote about the difference between a liar and a bullshitter by Harry Gordon Frankfurt

Harry Gordon Frankfurt was an American philosopher who taught at Princeton University. His research focused on ethics, philosophy of mind, action theory, and 17th-century philosophy. He is regarded as an important thinker in these fields.

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"The bullshitter is neither on the side of the true or the side of the false. His eye is not on the facts at all. He does not reject the authority of the truth, as the liar does, and oppose himself to it. He pays no attention to it at all. By virtue of this, bullshit is a greater enemy of the truth than lies are." Harry Gordon Frankfurt
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"This constant lying is not aimed at making the people believe a lie, but at ensuring that no one believes anything anymore. A people that can no longer distinguish between truth and lies cannot distinguish between right and wrong. And such a people, deprived of the power to think and judge, is, without knowing and willing it, completely subjected to the rule of lies. With such a people, you can do whatever you want. The aim of totalitarian education has never been to instill convictions but to destroy the capacity to form any." Hannah Arendt
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Quote by Fyodor Dostoevsky about self-deception, truth, respect, and loveCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"A man who lies to himself, and believes his own lies, becomes unable to recognize truth, either in himself or in anyone else, and he ends up losing respect for himself and for others. When he has no respect for anyone, he can no longer love, and in him, he yields to his impulses, indulges in the lowest form of pleasure, and behaves in the end like an animal in satisfying his vices. And it all comes from lying — to others and to yourself." Fjodor Dostojewski
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