Logical Fallacy of the Bold-Faced Lie / Bald-Faced Lie

Whenever a logical fallacy is committed, the fallacy has its roots in Agrippa's trilemma. All human thought (without Divine revelation) is based on one of three unhappy possibilities. These three possibilities are infinite regression, circular reasoning, or axiomatic thinking. This is known as Agrippa's trilemma. Some have claimed that only logic and math can be known; however, that is not true. Without Divine revelation, neither logic nor math can be known. Science is limited only to pragmatic thinking because of the weakness of human reasoning, which is known as Agrippa's trilemma. The bald-faced lie, a form of axiomatic thinking, is one of these three unhappy possibilities.

The logical fallacy of the bold-faced lie, or bald-faced lie occurs when a lie is told openly and plainly. This is not a veiled lie. This is a lie that is like bold-faced text. The teller of the lie may not know it’s a lie. In fact, error is spread much more effectively by those who don’t know that they are lying than by those who do know. As a man without a beard is bare-faced, so, this lie is told without shame and brazenly.

Examples of the Logical Fallacy of the Bold-Faced Lie / Bald-Faced Lie

“Molecules-to-man evolution is a scientific fact.”

Note that the statement, “Evolution is a scientific fact,” is not a bold-faced lie, since the lie is veiled in equivocation on the word, “evolution.” By stating the case as molecules-to-man, it becomes a bold-faced lie.

“Molecules-to-man evolution can be proven to have happened without depending on any made-up stories or assumptions.”

As you can see, it takes a very specific statement to be a bold-faced lie.

“There is no evidence that God exists.”

This is a bold-faced lie. However, a clever person can use almost anything as a hedging device. “That depends on what you mean by the word, “is.” The word, “evidence,” is often used for equivocation. In this case, the person making this statement could insist on a definition for the word, “evidence,” that eliminates anything that is done outside of a laboratory using scientists who are also Secularist dogmatists.