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Just to clarify, since people seem to disagree with me that this person lied: my evaluation of his sentence paragraph has more than 50% of his statements as false, with only one statement being compelling.

(truth? "And door handles that work.") resolves to false, because the subclaim (truth? "Tesla door handles don't work.") is false.

(truth? "Maybe Jane wants a button for her wing mirrors.") resolves to false, because it includes the subclaim "Tesla doesn't allow adjusting of wing mirrors via buttons" which is a false claim.

(truth? "Actually comfortable suspension.") is a subjective claim, but I personally find the suspension to be comfortable. So at least from my perspective this is a false claim. Moreover, there are a multitude of Tesla options and they don't all share the same suspension style. So even if you didn't like one suspension style, you could still like another, negating the thrust of this point for a larger category than would otherwise be negated. Thus, it seems false to me in a more general way, despite the subjective nature.

(truth? "Mercedes does cabin UX like Apple does software") is a subjective claim. but I heavily disagreed with its veracity. Since then the person I'm quoting has changed their mind on the basis of reflection. While not a lie, this sentence now resolves to false according to their stated worldview.

(truth? "An instrument cluster.") resolves to true. It is a compelling reason that someone might choose not to get a Tesla. If we're not going to give them the benefit of the doubt there are models of Tesla that do come with this panel. We'll give it to them anyway. We'll give it to them even though the very car that we're discussing has a display above the steering wheel. We'll give it to them even though it is a different car than was used for the comparison which didn't have this instrument cluster.

(truth? "A dealer to look after her from decision to delivery.") could be true, but it is a highly subjective situation. Moreover, I don't find it to be well founded that the average person would prefer a dealership environment rather than an online order.

So 4 false, 1 true, 1 true but not particularly convincing.

At what point does stating falsehood transition from being ignorant to being lying? Because I feel they have went well past a reasonable number of errors. This isn't a case of the majority of their words being true. The majority isn't true. They are majority false and arguably all of them are false. At the same time that they are majority false they were derisive: I posted facts, but they dismissed me as someone who was ranting.



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