It can be meaningful, depending on how much context there is, but statements like that often suffer a kind of context collapse where they are transplanted from

It can be meaningful, depending on how much context there is, but statements like that often suffer a kind of context collapse where they are transplanted from contexts where they are clearly true to contexts where they are debatable or even false. Jerf gives a very clear example of this in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45966261 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45966261.