On Exams, Insomnia, and Lies

It's been a while since my last post.

And why am I writing this now, you ask?

Elementary, my dear. I have an exam on Friday, and I'm supposed to be studying.

Allow me to repeat that, for maximum effect:

I'M. SUPPOSED. TO. BE. STUDYING.

I took out my books. My notepad, pencil, coloured pens - fully equipped. Opened my laptop, and viola! Hard working Sumi turns into God-knows-what-I'm-doing-with-my-life-Sumi.

What am I doing with my life?

What am I doing with life?

It's 2 AM in the morning, my eyelids are heavy, there is NOTHING I'd rather do right now than curl up in my bed and sleep, and here I am, clackety clack at the keyboard, updating a blog I haven't touched for more than 5 years.

Well, I hope you're happy, blog. Though why or how you should be happy escapes me at the moment. In case you haven't noticed, my faculties aren't quite fully functional. I want to say "...yet" but I don't want to lie. Or maybe I'll be telling the truth. I suppose after this exam season, I will make a spectacular comeback. Like the character in thrillers -  so bland we all right him off as a total loser, disappears from view for awhile, and then, lo and behold, he s the killer. It always takes me by surprise. That was a lie.

So

If you lie, and then say that you lied, is that a net truth?

e.g.: *1*I'm studying now. *2*That was a lie. (A)

I tried thinking about it this way: let's say people have something like a truth balance. So every time you tell a truth, you get 1 truth point, +1 TP. And every time you tell a lie, you get -1TP.
Following this, the above statement has a truth balance of 0, whether or not the second part is true.

But that does not accurately describe the situation.

(Defining knowledge as something that is believed to be true and is, in fact, true)

Say I said (A) to someone. And *2* is true. Then the person I am speaking to will know that, whatever it is I am doing, I am not studying. Their net knowledge of what is happening in the world increases.

But let's say *2* is a lie. Then their net knowledge would neither increase, nor decrease. They know nothing new from the conversation.

In the knowledge-based case, clearly (*2*-TRUE) /= (*2*FALSE)

So should knowledge points be used instead in judging lies and truths?

But the two sentences may also be interpreted simply as one - I am not studying. Where the TP- based and knowledge based interpretations are the same.

Geh. Hitting the sack now.