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Pedagogical situations require white lies: in teaching philosophy we make decisions about what to omit, what to emphasise, and what to distort. This article considers when it is permissible to distort the historical record, arguing for a tempered respect for the historical facts.
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This page is a summary of: Caricatures, Myths, and White Lies, Metaphilosophy, July 2015, Wiley,
DOI: 10.1111/meta.12139.
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