ACTS AND OMISSIONS.

The article discusses acts and omissions. Before the event, our business when engaging in practical thinking is to decide what to do, to make sure that we do the right thing and avoid doing the wrong thing. Precision is required but the ambiguities still remain. The English language has a repertoire of somewhat more technical expressions to hand for resolving these ambiguities. We may distinguish the different things we might want to say when we speak of someone doing something, by distinguishing between activities, actions, and acts.