2009/8/9 Ray Saintonge <[email protected]>:
> Failing to tell the *whole* truth by selective omissions is not the same
> as a lie, which would be to make claims that are knowingly false.  If
> the 1985 and 1995 editions of a biographical dictionary treat a person's
> Communist Party association differently that doesn't change the fact
> that both of those editions were in fact published  You can compare the
> two editions, and note any differences.

A "lie of omission" is often considered to be a lie, as the name suggests.

> Sure, *some* people will tend to do this sort of thing, but that is not
> the same as accusing all biographies there of being full of lies.

Nobody made any such accusation.

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