What is a half-truth ?

Well , let us first look at what it is not!

The current definitions include "a partly true statement," or "a statement that mingles truth and falsehoods"; this is incorrect. This is a half-true statement.

A half-truth is all about dimensions. It is true yet false. A paradox. It is a truth but not the Whole Truth.

A half-truth is totally true, but it is an error or lie of ommission.

It is like taking "a fruit" from the infinite tree of knowledge and believing that we know The Truth, like perhaps God.

The term half-truth is somewhat misleading and could be improved by looking at other words, such as half-of-the-truth, part-of-the-truth. It is a "white-lie" a truth that lies.

Correspondence was received from both Websters and Oxford University Press verifying that corrections to the current definitions would be undertaken.

Consequently if you understand what a half-truth is and isn't, then you can appreciate that Truth can lie if it is a half-truth and a lie could be a truth, if it is a half-truth.

A half-truth, the light that deceives.

Caesar J. B. A. Squitti