States constitutional law, false statements of fact are assertions, which are ostensibly facts, that are false. Such statements are not always protected...

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...

of thousands of false or misleading claims, including as President of the United States. Fact-checkers at The Washington Post documented 30,573 false...

Making false statements (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...

speech that violates intellectual property law, true threats, false statements of fact, and commercial speech such as advertising. Defamation that causes...

Fact-checking is the process of verifying the factual accuracy of questioned reporting and statements. Fact-checking can be conducted before or after...

fact' Factoid False statement Fiction Lie Truth "fact". Dictionary.com. Retrieved 17 May 2023. Mulligan, Kevin; Correia, Fabrice (2021), "Facts", in Zalta...

"Selection Bias? PolitiFact Rates Republican Statements as False at 3 Times the Rate of Democrats". Smart Politics. University of Minnesota. Archived from...

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 who does...

when, in fact, there could be many. False dilemmas often have the form of treating two contraries, which may both be false, as contradictories, of which...

antecedent is false prevents using the statement to infer anything about the truth value of the consequent. In essence, a conditional statement, that is based...

Lang, 2009, p. 190. "A statement can only be defamatory if it is false; therefore true statements of fact about others, regardless of the damage rendered...

respond to fake news or false information through a graduated process of enforcing links to fact-checking statements, censorship of website or assets on...

A factoid is either a false statement presented as a fact, or a true but brief or trivial item of news or information. The term was coined in 1973 by...

A false flag operation is an act committed with the intent of disguising the actual source of responsibility and pinning blame on another party. The term...

A false accusation is a claim or allegation of wrongdoing that is untrue and/or otherwise unsupported by facts. False accusations are also known as groundless...

Dialetheism – View that there are statements that are both true and false Double standard – Inconsistent application of principles Doublethink – Simultaneously...

Press Secretary Sean Spicer's false statement about the attendance numbers at Donald Trump's first inauguration as President of the United States. When pressed...

substitution of identicals) – the substitution of identical designators in a true statement can lead to a false one. A propositional fallacy is an error that...

containing a false claim, or statement, made intentionally, or recklessly, to promote the sale of property, goods or services. A false advertisement can be classified...

the respondent with a supposed "fact". This presupposition creates one of two separate effects: true effect and false effect. In true effect, the implication...

sentence. The importance of this fact is that the remainder of the sentence, the phrase "makes quite a statement," can now make a statement about the sentence...

equivalence above, the fact that φ is a contradiction may be derived, for example, from ⊢ ¬φ. A statement that entails false itself is sometimes called...

the instant the declarant falsely asserts the truth of statements (made or to be made) that are material to the outcome of the proceeding. It is not perjury...

obtained by false pretenses when the acquisition results from the intentional misrepresentation of a past or existing fact. The elements of false pretenses...

unrelated or false). Conversely, if the false statement is placed in the premise, the combined statement is less likely to be believed. Thus order of presentation...

or false declarative statement—used in an argument to prove the truth of another proposition called the conclusion. Arguments consist of a set of premises...

41). Section 106 makes it illegal for any person to publish any false statement of fact in relation to the candidate's personal character or conduct, unless...

atomic sentence is a type of declarative sentence which is either true or false (may also be referred to as a proposition, statement or truthbearer) and which...

misrepresentation is a false or misleading statement of fact made during negotiations by one party to another, the statement then inducing that other...