Comment on Why I'm not rushing to take sides in the RubyGems fiascoparentComments−afandian11moI know what you’re getting at.I think you’d call it a type of ‘lie of omission’.https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Lying_by_omissionBut also with some elements of ‘category error’https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Category_mistake−renewiltord11moI was thinking it's Lying by Omission but that seemed to not be specific enough to this specific style of omission. Ah well, it will have to suffice unless we can think of something sufficiently pithy.
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I know what you’re getting at.
I think you’d call it a type of ‘lie of omission’.
https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Lying_by_omission
But also with some elements of ‘category error’
https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Category_mistake
I was thinking it's Lying by Omission but that seemed to not be specific enough to this specific style of omission. Ah well, it will have to suffice unless we can think of something sufficiently pithy.