Comment by monkeyelite
4 days ago
I think this is a good example of a lie because you and your son both have a shared understanding of the world and he is deliberately saying something he does not believe to be true (that does not match his own internal recall of events).
There is a physical component to this lie but it seems to me that the social part dominates.
Yes, They have the same understanding of the meanings of the words "I", "was", "not" and "there", and the sentence.
That’s not the point. You know your son knows what happened - knowledge of his mental state. Not that you have a physical proof about the chain of causality.