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"factual but not truthful"
by base698 3y ago
"factual but not truthful"
- legacynl 3y agothats a nice play on words, but fact and truth are synonymous. I think you're looking for the phrase: "factual but not informative"
- clort 3y agoI guess there is a reason they settled on the phrase "The truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth". This article is truth, but not the whole truth.
- praptak 3y agoKnowing some facts and knowing the truth are different things. I'd say "factual but not truthful" is rigorous enough for a quip.
- whelp_24 3y agoFact and truth aren't synonymous. The connotation in English is different. A fact implies a verifiable statement with no grey area."A man died from falling". The truth implies you have the full picture and relevant context. "A man was murdered by being pushed off a building". Murder of course can't be 100% proven, it's a legal concept that involves intent and pre-planning and your location etc. Our fictional friend may be able to get a technicality that makes purposely pushing a man off a building not legally murder. But the truth would still be he murdered him.
- jefftk 3y ago"A man died from falling" is still truthful, though? This is why courts have you commit not just to tell the truth, but the whole truth.
- sokoloff 3y ago“The man did not die from the fall” is another example here. (He died from the impact, not the fall.)
- jefftk 3y agoI think that one is false, though? All of the following can be true: * The man died from massive internal bleeding * The man died from hitting the ground really hard * The man died from falling off a building * The man died from being pushed off a building
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- rmbyrro 3y agoPerhaps intentionally misleading?
- euroderf 3y ago> "factual but not truthful" Synonym for "talking points" ?