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Paltering

Colin Wright
Jul 11, 2023
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Paltering

Colin Wright
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April 11, 2023

"Paltering" refers to the use of truthful statements to create an overall untruthful narrative. This differs from a "lie of omission" in that such a lie generally means navigating around things you don't want to share or declining to correct an incorrect impression, while a palter focuses on what you do share: truths that add up to a misleading overall i…

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