A word on nitpicking: even if I believe it’s likely you meant a given thing, if it’s nonetheless not clear that you didn’t mean another, or presentation doesn’t make it clear for other people that you didn’t mean another, it’s still better to debias the discussion from illusion of transparency by explicitly disambiguating than relying on fitting the words to a model that was never explicitly tested.
A word on nitpicking: even if I believe it’s likely you meant a given thing, if it’s nonetheless not clear that you didn’t mean another, or presentation doesn’t make it clear for other people that you didn’t mean another, it’s still better to debias the discussion from illusion of transparency by explicitly disambiguating than relying on fitting the words to a model that was never explicitly tested.