Lying about the future: Shuar-Achuar epistemic norms, predictions, and commitments

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The belief that hallucinations can reveal the future has repercussions on the Shuar-Achuar concept of lying, according to this new paper by @gophilosophy_ https://t.co/PGVZRRFSxl

RT @octavio_medina: This is fascinating: "In Shuar-Achuar communities, but not others, predictions of the future that turn out to be false…

This is fascinating: "In Shuar-Achuar communities, but not others, predictions of the future that turn out to be false are considered lies, even when the events that render them false are unforeseen."

"the culturally particular pattern of judgments about lying that we found in Shuar-Achuar communities is grounded in a worldview that sees some future events as knowable, and speech acts about them as potentially deceptive" https://t.co/kylWkJobMN

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