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