"half of the truth" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
You can use it to refer to a situation in which only half of the overall facts or information about a particular topic are known or revealed. For example, "The politician only shared half of the truth during his speech, leading to confusion among his supporters."
In the middle of it all, little Yang-Yang (Jonathan Chang) wanders around with is camera and asks deep questions like "Daddy, can we only see half of the truth?" Mr. Yang was named best director at the Cannes International Film Festival last year -- Monday at 11 40 p.m. on Starz.
As he recalled in one letter, "The pervasive racial materialism in the Movement would require me to give only half of the truth to my comrades as to my own racial biology, but I felt that in the wider sweep of things this would not matter".
Well, it's half of the truth.
Furthermore, you likely only know half of the truth of any given topic anyway while they know the big picture -- and your information is likely dated.
Well, as I said, he went up with ads on black radio stations and told the other half of the truth: That Terry McAuliffe was not a Barack Obama supporter for much of 2008; that McAuliffe earned his buffoonish reputation by saying things like "Kiss my ass, Barack!" on the Jon Stewart Show.
The first half of the truth-conditions states that the proposition φ is true in the whole quantificational domain that the counterfactual attitude verb works upon, and the second half states that such a domain, viz. the set of φ-worlds, is not included in the set of common ground worlds, where the proposition φ is false.
But it ignores the other half of that truth, which is Proust's commitment to describing the sheer variousness of the world in a voice which is uniquely his own.
I think that maybe some of them had half suspected the truth all along.
"Freedom is only part of the story and half the truth...," Viktor Frankl wrote.
Nicola Sturgeon, the SNP's deputy leader and Scotland's deputy first minister, claimed Labour had won by running a negative campaign "full of half-truths and downright distortions of the truth and of reality".
By suggesting that the prisoner accept half-truths and plausible distortions of the truth, [the interrogator] makes it possible for the prisoner to rationalize and thus accept the interrogator's viewpoint as the only way out of an intolerable situation.
