It's not about what the words mean, it's about what they correlate with. Sometimes the act of speaking the words correlates with their literal meaning (not lying, or lying rarely). Sometimes the act of speaking the words has almost zero correlation with their literal meaning (lying almost ...
Humans constantly interact with each other. The outcomes of these interactions often hinge on decisions that individuals make independently. This is the case, for instance, in cooperative interactions where one person voluntarily incurs a cost to generate a joint benefit shared with a counterpart. How...