Half Truth

One of the most harmful and widespread fallacious rhetorical resources in inductive argument is half truth, which consists of considering arguments, evidence and suggestions in favor of a conclusion and omitting, hiding and ignoring arguments, evidences and suggestions to the contrary.

Since the half-truth is not fallacious because of what it states but because of what it omits, in order to identify it, it is necessary to first identify the evidence or contrary arguments that were omitted or hidden. -

example:

Measure X greatly benefits 50% of citizens, totaling millions of people (omitting to mention that it hurts the other 50% to the same extent)

♪ A half-truth is a complete lie ♪ Traditional proverb __: style=“text-align:right” __