In a recent book (Lying and insincerity, Oxford University Press, 2018), Andreas Stokke argues that one lies iff says something believes to be false, thereby proposing it becomes common ground. This paper shows Stokke’s proposal is unable draw the right distinctions about insincere performative utterances. The objection also has repercussions on theories of assertion, because poses novel challe...

In today’s age of fast and multifarious publications, we often come across such paradoxes, for example, that research statistical analysis may indeed have been carried out correctly (properly), but the interpretation results is inadequate, or even incorrect, misleading. To relate this hypothesis to Moravec’s paradox, one could reformulate latter by saying ‘to do easy; discuss difficult’. But wh...