A lie is a story unrelated to the Experience of the teller.
This does not mean that the experience of the story teller is to be understood as limited to personal, first hand encounters of events in real time. Experience is registered in the body of a story organism in many ways, through language, learning, music, exercise, sounds, food, or images or any combination of these involving our senses, thoughts or feelings as story creatures.
A good example of a lie would be to claim credit for the release of a Canadian citizen from a foreign gaol when in fact the claimant never intervened to procure this release.
After the release the claimant merely attempted to gain public or political credit by implying, suggesting or describing activities that did not happen. This falsehood would be a lie and known by the teller to be false.
Telling the truth about these events would sound something like: “In regards the release of Mr. Jones who lives in Winnipeg from prison in Paraguay we did not intervene or play any role in these historical events and have no story to tell about them.”
