Class questions:

1. Give one example of "mental reservation" and one of "equivocation" (see notes from class 1)
2. Would a completely truthful society be any more tolerable than a completely mendacious one?
3. Evaluate Shapin’s claims for the reliance of modern scientist on trust in authorities, with regard to a specific example.
4. Give one example of the modernist transition described by Shapin from trust in people to trust in impersonal systems.
5. Are geometrical truths, as Barnes seems to suggest, dependent on trusting people? What would it be like to distrust the Pythagorean theorem?
6. Compare St. Augustine’s analysis of lying in medical practice with that of Lawrence Henderson (see notes from class 1)

Bonus question (optional):

Would Kant’s moral critique of lying (see notes from class 2), apply to mental reservation and equivocation?