I agree but I am not convinced ThomasMore attempted to use not wanting to go into detail as an excuse for making false claims: my reading is that ThomasMore believes the claim he made, but agrees with Dagon that to convince others he would need to say more than he did.
(I am not claiming that TM’s claim is in fact true, which it may or may not be; only that TM believes it, which means that he can fully agree with you that “not wanting to go into detail is no good reason to make claims that are false” while still making that claim.)
I agree but I am not convinced ThomasMore attempted to use not wanting to go into detail as an excuse for making false claims: my reading is that ThomasMore believes the claim he made, but agrees with Dagon that to convince others he would need to say more than he did.
(I am not claiming that TM’s claim is in fact true, which it may or may not be; only that TM believes it, which means that he can fully agree with you that “not wanting to go into detail is no good reason to make claims that are false” while still making that claim.)