Supposing that Y is the correct answer to a question, but you are incapable of communicating it to Y, some kind of less or differently true substitute must be used, in terms of the language that they speak and understand
Sure, and if X really is the best approximation of Y that Bob can understand, then again Alice is not dishonest. Although I’m not sure what “approximation” means exactly.
But there is also a case where Alice tells Bob that “X is true”, not because X is somehow close to Y, but because, supposedly, X and Y both imply some Z. This is again a very different case. I think this is just pure and simple lying. That is, the vast majority of lies ever told fall into this category (for example, Z could be “you shouldn’t jail me”, X could be “I didn’t kill anyone” and Y could be “sure, I killed someone, but I promise I won’t do it again”).
In general, the problem is that you didn’t give specific examples, so I don’t really know what case you’re referring to.
Supposing that Y is the correct answer to a question, but you are incapable of communicating it to Y, some kind of less or differently true substitute must be used, in terms of the language that they speak and understand
Sure, and if X really is the best approximation of Y that Bob can understand, then again Alice is not dishonest. Although I’m not sure what “approximation” means exactly.
But there is also a case where Alice tells Bob that “X is true”, not because X is somehow close to Y, but because, supposedly, X and Y both imply some Z. This is again a very different case. I think this is just pure and simple lying. That is, the vast majority of lies ever told fall into this category (for example, Z could be “you shouldn’t jail me”, X could be “I didn’t kill anyone” and Y could be “sure, I killed someone, but I promise I won’t do it again”).
In general, the problem is that you didn’t give specific examples, so I don’t really know what case you’re referring to.