I may have an explanation. I'm gonna guess this guy probably talks out of his ass, like me, and bullshits a bunch of vibe based conjectures.

Harry Frankfort wrote an essay and then a book called "On Bullshit," and he talks about how people often times don't necessarily lie, but they bullshit. Bullshit is something based on what we don't concretely know, which is different from a lie. A lie is when we tell someone something that we believe to be true.

Like if I saw someone who looked like friend's girlfriend cheating on her with another woman, and I tell my friend her girlfriend isn't cheating, then I lied. Whether or not I actually know if the girlfriend is cheating is irrelevant to the truth (truthiness?) of my statement.