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• half truth

語源

From half- +‎ truth.

名詞

half-truth (countable and uncountable, plural half-truths)

1. A deceptive statement, especially one that is only partly true, is incomplete, misrepresents reality by telling part of the truth, or alters the time sequence of truths.
   • 1962 August, “Let's have plain speaking”, in Modern Railways, page 74:

     The Minister no doubt would claim that the public has already expressed its opinion by deserting the trains. As we have said before, this is scarcely a half-truth. By and large, where there has been a decline the public has deserted the out-dated trains; [...].

使用する際の注意点

• Half-truths may use various tools, including statistics, unexpected meanings of words, facts taken out of context, or even nonstandard punctuation to corrupt the meaning conveyed by an otherwise true statement. For more information, see Wikipedia's article "Lie".

関連する語

• truth
• true
• anti-truth

参考

• lie
• contextomy
• white lie