There is really no 100% safe anything
That doesn't prevent the statement from being true. The fact that there's no 100% safe anything doesn't turn the statement into a lie while the example that Lumifer provides happens to be clear lying.
meant
I didn't focus on what he "meant" but on my idea of what I believed his mental model to be.
I don't think DVH's mental models have getting inaccurate in any way as a result of my communication. He didn't pick up the belief "Startups as as safe as my current job". I didn't intent to get him to pick up that belief either. I don't believe that statement either.
My statement thus does fulfill the two criteria:
1) It's true on it's surface.
2) It didn't lead to inaccurate beliefs in the person I'm talking with.
Statement that fulfill both of those criteria aren't lies.
Statement that fulfill both of those criteria aren't lies.
That would mean that if you say something that is literally true but intended to mislead, and someone figures that out, it's not a lie.
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