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On Bullshit cover

On Bullshit

by Harry G. Frankfurt

  • FINISHED
  • Finished January 2016
  • First published 2005

philosophy ethics epistemology essays

A short essay on what bullshit is and how it differs from lying.   Frankfurt argues that the bullshitter does not care whether what he says is true, which makes him a bigger threat to truth than the liar.