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[Igel]

13. Not all "lies" are false.

Some lies are mostly true and are false by omission.

The speaker says only true, the hearer infers all false.

This is worse than a lie. With a lie, you can say, "He told me an untruth." With an inferred untruth based on truth, you might claim you were mislead--but that means you were duped, and even then, for a superior0-thinking person that means the stupid mislead the bright. The person heard the facts, the person inferred wrongly, reached a false conclusion ... and owns it. That person didn't just accept it--it's that person's own conclusion, fruit of his/her labor. It's their intellectual baby and they've bought in.

Ownership is hard to give up.

Even if it's built on a set of true facts that omits a lot of also true facts so sets the I-wanna-believe thinker, often self-dubbed "critical" thinker, up for naive thinking and false conclusions. If logic has it's own devil appointed to corrupt it, it's that devil's work.

I've said before that "half a lie is worse than a lie" because that's how it works. In academia. In relationships. In politics.