No, that’s probably just belief as attire. My point is just that reasonable interpretations of “Suicide bombers are cowardly” allow the statement to be true, even if people don’t mean the true version, or if they came to that conclusion for the wrong reason.
I think that “seeking a reasonable interpretation that allows a statement to be true, which you’re pretty sure the speaker did not mean” is probably ill-advised. I’m having trouble articulating why I have that intuition though.
Update: had the thought that this might be advisable in high-trust contexts, for example with a significant other. Taking from this that “it depends” is a better take than my original “seems ill-advised”.
No, that’s probably just belief as attire. My point is just that reasonable interpretations of “Suicide bombers are cowardly” allow the statement to be true, even if people don’t mean the true version, or if they came to that conclusion for the wrong reason.
I think that “seeking a reasonable interpretation that allows a statement to be true, which you’re pretty sure the speaker did not mean” is probably ill-advised. I’m having trouble articulating why I have that intuition though.
Update: had the thought that this might be advisable in high-trust contexts, for example with a significant other. Taking from this that “it depends” is a better take than my original “seems ill-advised”.