In other words, he might feel sad for saying the wrong thing.

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She's confronted him with having knowingly taken the father's words the wrong way: "You stop that lying.

她母亲已对理查,使用的方法心知肚明：,““不要再撒谎了“

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In other words, Plato is wrong. The poet is not a liar because he's not talking about anything that's verifiable or falsifiable.

意思就是说，柏拉图错了，诗人不是骗子,因为它从未说过什么话可以证明或证伪。

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Language has powers that are entirely unpredictable, that can't be harnessed in precisely that deliberate way: by making a decision to take someone's words in the wrong way, or by telling a story to make a moral point, as the mother does.

语言的力量无可估量，绝不是单单使用一下那么简单：,而是通过假意遵从，以及勾起人性良知的方式表达的。

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