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But I'm not sure that's a Kantian option.
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You're still lying though.
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No, because he's in the house but he won't be.
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Oh I see. All right, good enough. One more try.
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If you just say you don't know where he is
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because he might not be locked in the closet. He might have left the closet.
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You have no clue where he could be.
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So you would say, I don't know which wouldn't actually be a lie
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because you weren't at that very moment looking in the closet.
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- Exactly. - So it would be strictly speaking true.
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Yes.
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- And yet possibly deceiving, misleading. - But still true.