Introduction

You might think that honesty is a kind of terminal norm of communication. So here's a paradox. If we accept the second horn, we have to say, you know, b honest if it happens to be good, yes. Xay, oh, but otherwise, don't be honest. And so how canw so what's your solution to this puzzle? I will frame this in the context of the concept of norms. That is not just a good thing or bad thing, but it's a good or bad thing that we choose together to call a norm and to celebrate or demigrate.