-As a _social_ rule, it's _very rude_ to tell someone that you think they're lying or delusional about something that they say they've experienced. Because we are nice people, we certainly do not want to be rude! At the same time, however, when we're doing science, we _cannot_ commit ourselves to the assumption that all self-reports must be taken as literally true.
+As a _social_ rule, it's _very rude_ to tell someone that you think they're mistaken about something that they claim about themselves. Because we are nice people, we certainly do not want to be rude! At the same time, however, when we're doing science and trying to find out _how things actually work_ independently of whether the truth conforms to the social rules we observe to keep harmony among ourselves, we _cannot_ commit ourselves to the assumption that all self-reports must be taken as literally true, because—even if no one is deliberately _lying_, even if everyone is trying their very hardest to choose the words that will best express the ineffable truth of their subjective experience—that would exclude the vast swathes of hypothesis-space under which some people have false beliefs about themselves.