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. _______________________________________________ Wikipedia-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikipedia-l
