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   Paul Cantrell (inthehands@hachyderm.io)'s status on Tuesday, 26-May-2026 06:50:20 JST Paul Cantrell

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   • David Smith
   • Greg Titus

   @gregtitus @jrose @Catfish_Man

   Indeed, but I do think that being misinformed or mistaken (with a sufficient dose of “in good faith”) is an affirmative defense against charges of perjury, is it not?

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     Greg Titus (gregtitus@social.coop)'s status on Tuesday, 26-May-2026 06:50:22 JST Greg Titus

     • David Smith

     @jrose @Catfish_Man @inthehands In that setting, what you are being asked is a shorthand meaning to make statements whose truth value is known to you and whose value is true. So you would (you better!) say in a court of law "he told me he would be there" rather than any other type of statement about the matter.

     Thus, I would argue that this is not a semantically different definition of "truth" at all.