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▲{{quote| '''''Lie''': Noun. That which causes its utterer to be reviled; in essence, the truth.''}}
|Thorax, ''[[9 Chickweed Lane]]''}}
▲{{quote|'''''Deceit''': Noun. Example: A dog rolls on the carcass of a dead possum in order to deceive other animals regarding his identity as a dog (whereas) a man lolls in the scents of church in order to deceive himself regarding his identity as a thief, an adulterer, and a liar (the difference is that the dog does not first have to endure being bored by the possum).''|Thorax, ''[[9 Chickweed Lane]]''}}
The thing about truth and deceptions is that they are always of a certain kind. If only you could recognize them before they arrive... Here are a few hints.
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Tropes of Truth=
First, recognize honest intent, whether expressed as the plain truth or a technical falsehood. Possibilities include:
* Metaphoric Truth: 'I am a child at heart', 'The Earth is our mother', 'All men are brothers' -- all are known falsehoods spoken without intent to deceive. My father is not my brother, and my mother does not weigh 6.5 hexillion tons, but no one would take such statements literally -- [[The Ditz|well, almost no one]].
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Second, learn the myriad shades of deception, purely for self-defense, of course.
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* [[Cover Identity Anomaly]]: Missing some basic piece of information about someone you're pretending to be, often forcing you to make up something on the spot.
* [[False Reassurance]], a lie that is the truth in its [[Exact Words]]. A guard at a railroad track back in the 1920s was testifying that he was swinging his lamp when the automobile crashed into the train at 3 in the morning. It was determined later that while he was swinging his lamp to warn oncoming traffic, the lamp was not lit at the time.
* [[Half Truth]]: A statement that is technically true, but extremely misleading if you don't have all the information.
* [[Ignorance Is Bliss]]: A character or characters are told that what they are doing is something completely harmless or beneficial when it's actually dangerous or evil.
* [[Mysterious Backer]]: The characters are only being told as much as they need to know.
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* [[Faking Amnesia]]
* [[Fiction Never Lies]]
* [[Metaphorically True]]
* [[God Guise]]
* [[God Never Said That]]
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* [[Recruiters Always Lie]]
* [[Secretly Wealthy]]
* [[Self
* [[The Shadow Knows]]
* [[Snowball Lie]]
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[[Category:Topical Tropes]]
[[Category:Dialogue]]
[[Category:The Shades of Fact]]
[[Category:Tropes]]
[[Category:Plots]]
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