Thomas Dalton wrote:
2009/8/9 Ray Saintonge saintonge@telus.net:
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.
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