 In "Hippias Minor", Socrates argues with Hippias about which kind of liar is the best, the man who deliberately contrives a lie, or the man who lies unwittingly, from not paying attention to what he is saying, or changing his mind.Socrates argues that the voluntary lie is better than the involuntary lie.The debate is rooted in a literary question about whom Homer intended to portray as the better man, Achilles or Odysseus.