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What does half-truth mean?

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Noun
  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.
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This is a half-truth, and like all half-truths it conceals a most dangerous fallacy.
The bare assertion that there are no problems in classifying dicalcium phosphate in the other Member States is a half-truth, for it does not say that dicalcium phosphate is not imported into those Member States from Tunisia.
My hunch is that this is at best a half-truth, which has continued to circulate because it has not been put under penetrating scrutiny.
We looked into the situation for female workers under federal jurisdiction, and it seems as though what the minister told us was a half-truth.
Again that is, at best, a half-truth, and I would suggest a complete fallacy if members really want to know the truth.
A half-truth is more deadly than an outright prevarication.

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