Falsity or falsehood is a perversion of truth

Truth

Truth has a variety of meanings, such as the state of being in accord with fact or reality. It can also mean having fidelity to an original or to a standard or ideal. In a common usage, it also means constancy or sincerity in action or character...

 originating in the deceitfulness of one party, and culminating in the damage of another party. Falsity is also a measure of the quality or extent of the falseness of something, while a falsehood may also mean simply an incorrect (false) statement, independent of any intention to deceive.

In the Frege-Church ontology, "truth" is the denotation of a true proposition, while "falsity" is the denotation of false propositions.

In esthetics, falsity is ugly, and truth is beautiful.

In existentialism, falsity is usually a thing to be avoided, and is not desired.

Examples

• Counterfeiting money, or attempting to coin genuine legal tender without due authorization;
• tampering with wills, codicils
  Codicil (will)
  A codicil is a document that amends, rather than replaces, a previously executed will. Amendments made by a codicil may add or revoke small provisions , or may completely change the majority, or all, of the gifts under the will...
  
  , or such-like legal instruments;
• prying into the correspondence of others to their prejudice;
• using false weights and measures,
• adulterating merchandise, so as to render saleable what purchasers would otherwise never buy, or so as to derive larger profits from goods otherwise marketable only at lower figures;
• bribing judges,
• suborning witnesses;
• advancing false testimony;
• manufacturing spurious seals;
• forging
  Forgery
  Forgery is the process of making, adapting, or imitating objects, statistics, or documents with the intent to deceive. Copies, studio replicas, and reproductions are not considered forgeries, though they may later become forgeries through knowing and willful misrepresentations. Forging money or...
  
  signatures;
• padding accounts;
• interpolating the texts of legal enactments; and
• sharing in the pretended birth of supposititious offspring

are among the chief forms which this crime assumes.

External links

• Catholic Encyclopedia "Falsity"