The mental image of the pyramidal light bulb carried semantic content, such as knowledge of its glass composition, imported from the "light bulb" concept.
Unresolvable The public record could not settle it.
Factual: Statements about the present or the past, checked against the record: did they hold up?
Said for an organisation they lead or work for; it counts on both records.
Reasoning
Concerns the content of the author's private mental image.
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Eliezer Yudkowsky, “The mental image of the pyramidal light bulb carried semantic content, such as knowledge of its glass composition, imported from the "light bulb" concept.” (said 2007). Verdict: unresolvable. Reliability API, claim c_7b0f8a4bec76, method 0.1.0+c876030c, dataset release v1.1.2. https://epistacklabs.com/claims/c_7b0f8a4bec76
This claim is in dataset release v1.1.2, with the same verdict.
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