One lies when affirming the opposite of what one takes to be objectively true: either affirming what should be denied or denying what should be affirmed, given the facts of the matter. However, if everything is a matter of interpretation or redescription or perspective all the way down, then there are no bedrock facts at all—no facts to relay and no facts to obscure. One's words create all the reality we can ever "know." The clear consequence of such a view is that lies are nonexistent because they are impossible. This is so radically counterintuitive as to be absurd.

—Douglas Groothuis, Truth Decay