I emphatically agree with that, and I apologise for choosing a less-than-perfect example.
But when I’m thinking of “ways in which an obviously true statement can be wrong”, I think one of the prominent ways is “having a different definition than the person you’re talking to, but both assuming your definition is universal”. That doesn’t matter if you’re always careful to delineate between “this statement is true according to my internal definition” and “this statement is true according to commonly accepted definitions”, but if you’re 99.99% sure your definition is certain, it’s easy NOT to specify (eg. in the first sentence of the post)
I emphatically agree with that, and I apologise for choosing a less-than-perfect example.
But when I’m thinking of “ways in which an obviously true statement can be wrong”, I think one of the prominent ways is “having a different definition than the person you’re talking to, but both assuming your definition is universal”. That doesn’t matter if you’re always careful to delineate between “this statement is true according to my internal definition” and “this statement is true according to commonly accepted definitions”, but if you’re 99.99% sure your definition is certain, it’s easy NOT to specify (eg. in the first sentence of the post)