the bullshitter

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Philosophy

 

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David Y

 

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May 4, 2015

 

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The essence of bullshit, Frankfurt decides, is that it is produced without any concern for the truth. Bullshit needn't be false: "The bullshitter is faking things. But this does not mean that he necessarily gets them wrong." The bullshitter's fakery consists not in misrepresenting a state of affairs but in concealing his own indifference to the truth of what he says...
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The liar, by contrast, is concerned with the truth, in a perverse sort of fashion, he wants to lead us away from it. As Frankfurt sees it, the liar and the person who tells the truth are playing on opposite sides of the same game. The bullshitter wishes out of this game altogether. Unlike the liar and the person who tells the truth, he is not guided in what he says by his beliefs about the way things are...
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