A false statement, also known as a falsehood, falsity, misstatement or untruth, is a statement that is false or does not align with reality. This concept spans various fields, including communication, law, linguistics, and philosophy. It is considered a fundamental issue in human discourse. The intentional dissemination of misstatements (disinformation) is commonly termed as deception or lying, while unintentional inaccuracies may arise from misconceptions, misinformation, or mistakes.
Although the word fallacy is sometimes used as a synonym for false statement, that is not how the word is used in most formal contexts.
A falsestatement, also known as a falsehood, falsity, misstatement or untruth, is a statement that is false or does not align with reality. This concept...
Making falsestatements (18 U.S.C. § 1001) is the common name for the United States federal process crime laid out in Section 1001 of Title 18 of the United...
June 8, 2023, a grand jury indicted Trump on one count of making "falsestatements and representations", specifically by hiding subpoenaed classified...
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States constitutional law, falsestatements of fact are assertions, which are ostensibly facts, that are false. Such statements are not always protected...
state the truth. In some jurisdictions, no crime has occurred when a falsestatement is (intentionally or unintentionally) made while under oath or subject...
imperative programming language Statement (logic and semantics), declarative sentence that is either true or falseStatement, a declarative phrase in language...
False advertising is the act of publishing, transmitting, or otherwise publicly circulating an advertisement containing a false claim, or statement, made...
"All Cretans are liars." However, Epimenides' statement that all Cretans are liars can be resolved as false, given that he knows of at least one other Cretan...
philosophy and logic as the statement "This sentence is false." Any attempts to assign a classical binary truth value to this statement lead to a contradiction...
Barack Obama to tighten immigration procedures for Iraqi citizens. Her falsestatement went viral and became the top trending topic on Twitter, with many...
B is true. A is false. Therefore, B is false. While B can indeed be false, this cannot be linked to the premise since the statement is a non sequitur...
action, speech that violates intellectual property law, true threats, falsestatements of fact, and commercial speech such as advertising. Defamation that...
of abuse allegations brought against Nassar and how the agents made falsestatements regarding their reports and misinformation about the botched investigation...
presented, a false claim for payment or approval; Knowingly making, using, or causing to be made or used, a false record or statement material to a false or fraudulent...
interpreted as deliberately falsestatements or misleading statements, though not all statements that are literally false are considered lies – metaphors...
and false. More formally, a relatively well-defined usage refers to a conditional statement (or a universal conditional statement) with a false antecedent...
or not the witness's statement is false at all. The witness renders himself liable to punishment by simply making assertions, false or true, which he does...
is true or false. Multiple empirical studies have found SCAN techniques to be unreliable at correctly separating true and falsestatements. SCAN is generally...
Khan is false. The Wikipedia statement “Genghis Khan founded the largest contiguous empire in world history” is thus true, and the statement “Genghis...
HardwareZone removed the offending statements from its website and agreed to help identify who had made those falsestatements. In 2005, polytechnic student...
In 2023, Tay was the subject of widespread media coverage after a falsestatement announcing she had died was published from her Instagram account. Later...