Thomas Dalton wrote:
> 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.
>   

That term is one of your own invention.

>> 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.

Not directly, only by innuendo.

Ec

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