[ApK]

People make explicit statements that are wrong all the time.

Think of all the "copyright disclaimers" people post, explicitly stating how their blatant copyright infringement is not copyright infringement.

Or the statements in spam email explicitly stating that the email is not spam.

(though I suspect those are more willful lies, than someone simply not knowing the intricacies of the tax system, or what their misunderstanding of their eARC offer might imply.)

Anyway, this is just musings, apropos of nothing, so I won't fill more space. I have reason to think any of this is so, just that's a possibility.