I'm not quite sure that's the case. Ray said "That term is one of your
own invention" which seemed to convey a belief that it was a new usage
made up by Thomas Dalton.
Mark
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On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 12:46 AM, lennart
guldbrandsson<l_guldbrandsson(a)hotmail.com> wrote:
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Date: Mon, 10 Aug 2009 03:39:25 -0400
Subject: Re: [Wikipedia-l] Are we running out of sources
On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 3:08 AM, Ray Saintonge<saintonge(a)telus.net> 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%3ASearc…)
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
What I believe was the question here was not who coined the phrase "lie of
ommission", but rather who brought it into the discussion.
/Lennart
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