Home – Home – Jornals – Philosophy of Sciences 2015 number 2

The paper considers correlation between the conceptions of fraud, lie and epistemic lie. The conclusion is made that in the genetic aspect theoretical and cognitive conception of truth originates in the conception of fraud. It is shown that the conception of fraud may be ontologized through naturalization in the communicative aspect. Attempts to reduce truth to fraud are doomed to failure. Nevertheless, epistemic lie may be ontologized if we accept the premise that truth is an attribute of a reasonable person at the level of his or her computing structure. Epistemic truth and epistemic lie may be detected by technical means (for example by polygraph) as specific inner conditions of computing (psychophysical) system.