Consider a proposition P: that person A is person B’s secret lover. For the purpose of the exercise, the proposition is false.

Let us say that Person A jokes, in public, that they are Person B’s secret lover. That is, they claim that P is true.

I think making this claim changes P from being something that is false, to something the falsity of which is itself secret.

I am, of course, person A.

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