Lies, relevance and theory of mind
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- Victoria Camacho Taboada (ES) Universidad de Sevilla Dpto. Lengua Española, Lingüística y Tª de la Literatura C/Palos de la Fra. s/n 41004 Sevilla
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Telling lies on purpose is one of the most prominent features of our species. In this article we discuss whichcognitive tools we use to lie other people. Specifically, we will argue that, as well as language, we require theability to attribute mental states to others. This capacity would be the result of a complex cognitive modulewhere we include, among other abilities, the relevance principle (Sperber y Wilson 1986/1995), the capacityto ascribe recursively mental states to others (Perner y Wimmer, 1985) and the mechanism for detectingdeception (Cosmides, 1989; Tobby y Cosmides, 1989, 1992, 2000).
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