On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 3:08 AM, Ray Saintonge<[email protected]> wrote:
A "lie of omission" is often considered to be a lie, as the name suggests.


That term is one of your own invention.

Lie of omission is his invention?

1m ghits http://www.google.com/search?num=100&q=%22lie%20of%20omission%22
and 612 book hits http://books.google.com/books?num=100&q="lie of omission"
and [[Lie#Types of lies]] (not to mention the multiple usages in our other articles: 
https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/w/index.php?title=Special%3ASearch&redirs=0&search=lie+of+omission&fulltext=Search&ns0=1&ns1=1&ns2=1&ns3=1&ns4=1&ns5=1&ns6=1&ns7=1&ns8=1&ns9=1&ns10=1&ns11=1&ns12=1&ns13=1&ns14=1&ns15=1&ns100=1&ns101=1)

all say to me that lie of omission is exactly what I thought it was: a common 
English phrase. Where is the invention here?

--
gwern

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