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  2. Lie - Wikipedia

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    For example, when the seller of a car declares it has been serviced regularly, but does not mention that a fault was reported during the last service, the seller lies by omission. It may be compared to dissimulation. An omission is when a person tells most of the truth, but leaves out a few key facts that therefore, completely obscures the ...

  3. Omission (law) - Wikipedia

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    In law, an omission is a failure to act, which generally attracts different legal consequences from positive conduct. In the criminal law , an omission will constitute an actus reus and give rise to liability only when the law imposes a duty to act and the defendant is in breach of that duty.

  4. Omissions in English criminal law - Wikipedia

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    Lush LJ held that whilst an omission could constitute an act of murder, because there was no statutory duty for the railway to provide a watchman, there could not be any criminal liability. [8] However, thirty years later, in the case of R v Pittwood, [9] the court adopted a different stance to a case of similar facts. In this case, a ...

  5. Omission - Wikipedia

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    Omission may refer to: Sin of omission, a sin committed by willingly not performing a certain action; Omission (law), a failure to act, with legal consequences; Omission bias, a tendency to favor inaction over action; Purposeful omission, a literary method; Theory of omission, a writing technique; The Omission, a 2018 Argentine film

  6. Paltering - Wikipedia

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    Paltering differs from a lie of omission in the following way, as described by Todd Rogers of the Kennedy School: When selling a used car with engine trouble, a lie of omission would be a silent failure to correct a buyer who said, "I presume the car is in excellent shape and the engine runs well", while paltering would involve deceiving the ...

  7. Tips for how to tell if someone is deceiving you - AOL

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    Former Secret Service agent Evy Pompouras talks with Andrea Canning on the Dateline: True Crime Weekly podcast about how to tell if someone is lying to you.

  8. Deception - Wikipedia

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    Most lies and misinformation are spread commonly through emails and instant messaging since these messages are erased faster. [15] Without face to face communication, it could be easier to deceive others, making it difficult to detect the truth from a lie. These unreliable cues allow digital deception to easily influence and mislead others. [16]

  9. The Overdue, Under-Told Story Of The Clitoris

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    From ancient history to the modern day, the clitoris has been discredited, dismissed and deleted -- and women's pleasure has often been left out of the conversation entirely. Now, an underground art movement led by artist Sophia Wallace is emerging across the globe to challenge the lies, question the myths and rewrite the rules around sex and the female body.