Lying, accuracy and credence

Traditional definitions of lying require that a speaker believe that what she asserts is false. Sam Fox Krauss (Analysis 2017) seeks to jettison the traditional belief requirement in favour of a necessary condition given in a credence-accuracy framework, on which the liar expects to impose the risk of increased inaccuracy on the hearer (the 'worse-off requirement'). He argues that this necessary condition importantly captures nearby cases as lies which the traditional view neglects. I argue, however, that Krauss's own account suffers from an identical drawback of being unable to explain nearby cases; and even worse, that account fails to distinguish cases of telling lies from cases of telling the truth. © The Author 2017. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of.