The act/omission distinction is widely thought of as being foundational importance in the substantive criminal law liberal states. While acts can be proper targets for offences, it that we should only exceptionally criminalise omissions. I argue against this piece orthodoxy by showing if are careful to fairly compare and omissions qua criminalisation, then none standard arguments favour convinc...

Leading theories of lying disagree on many points, but they agree the following assumption: essentially involves asserting. The possibility by omission poses a challenge to that shared assumption. To lie is not This paper first experimental investigation whether conceptually possible, according our ordinary, concept. Overall, results support, without proving, it possible. Based present findings...