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A lie is generally considered to be making a statement you know to be false. If a person is ignorant of the truth, their false statement is not necessarily a lie until it is repeated by someone who knows the truth. Denying a verifiable fact out of ignorance is just that - ignorance, and perhaps disbelief. Denying something out of ignorance when you CAN (but haven't) verified is perhaps stubborn or lazy, but not technically a lie. The issue is not whether the fact is verifiable; it's whether you know what you are saying is not true.

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