Carmen and John Thank you for a very interesting reply. If I get you right, you think that the sample sentence I provided cannot be determined to be true-technically. However it is probably true-colloquially, that is to say accurate, given the level of specificity at which it is made. I guess I am a colloquial kind of guy J Seriously though, I find it a bit problematic that given the epistemology you propose I can only claim that my challenge sentence is true-colloquially. It wouldn’t bother me so much if someone had corrected me and written that in fact the estimate I made was to high or to low - what I know with a higher degree of certainty is, to borrow your words: that the events referred to in the sample sentence are events that actually occurred with a horrendous loss of life. You mention the possibility of a way out of this troubling situation, the introduction of the term accuracy. “You could then say that the statement (while not true in the technical sense) is accurate at the level of specificity at which it is made.” Why not say that the statement is true at the level of specificity at which it is made? All the best Uncle Fester