Direction for the following 3 (three) items: Read the following three passages and answer the items (61-63) that follow. Your answers to these items should be based on the passage only.

Most people would agree that telling deliberate lies is wrong, except perhaps in certain special situations where more harm will be done by telling the truth. Even the most truthful people probably tell a good many more lies that might be regarded as semantic lies, their use of words contains some measure of falsehood, more or less deliberate”.

Which one of the following habits is found more often in good people?

Correct Option: Intentional mixing up of truth with the false

Step-by-step Explanation:

1. Analyze the Passage:

The passage mentions that even the most truthful ("good") people engage in telling "semantic lies," where "their use of words contains some measure of falsehood, more or less deliberate".

2. Evaluate the Options:

• "Intentional mixing up of truth with the false" directly corresponds to the phrase in the text describing semantic lies where words contain "some measure of falsehood" that is "more or less deliberate" (intentional).

• Other options do not reflect the specific nuance of deliberate/intentional semantic falsehood blended into word usage as stated in the passage.

3. Conclusion:

Therefore, the habit found more often even in truthful/good people is the intentional mixing up of truth with falsehood (semantic lies).