Or maybe, Bob does not have property X, and Alice is mistaken, tendentious, projecting her own stuff onto Bob, gaslighting, straightforwardly lying, or something else. All of these and many other reasonable possibilities are consistent with the imaginary scenario as presented: “Alice tells Bob, “You have property X”.”
Personally, whenever I hear “Alice” say “X” about “Bob”, I never think, “oh, so Bob is X!” That Bob is X is only one of all of these possibilities about what is going on, and does not even dominate the probability space.
Or maybe, Bob does not have property X, and Alice is mistaken, tendentious, projecting her own stuff onto Bob, gaslighting, straightforwardly lying, or something else. All of these and many other reasonable possibilities are consistent with the imaginary scenario as presented: “Alice tells Bob, “You have property X”.”
Personally, whenever I hear “Alice” say “X” about “Bob”, I never think, “oh, so Bob is X!” That Bob is X is only one of all of these possibilities about what is going on, and does not even dominate the probability space.