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suggestio falsi

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suggestio falsi (plural suggestiones falsi)

A misrepresentation of the truth brought about by implying a falsehood to be true; a lie of implication. Compare suppressio veri.

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I am well aware that the path of the biographer is beset with pitfalls, and that, for him, suppressio veri is almost necessarily suggestio falsi - the least omission may distort the whole picture. Stuart Dodgson Collingwood

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