IN> Question about Seraphic Resonance

[Michael L Wilson]

I've been thinking about some of the subtler points in dealing with 
communication and the seraphic resonance (at lower CD values).  In the 
core rules, the discussion of the seraphim has a brief vignette wherein a 
seraph recognizes a lie in the statement, "I don't know nothing!"

Problem the First: Literally, the statement was true.

Problem the Second: The resonance mechanics always tell you when the 
person believes that they've lied, whether they have or not.  In this 
case, it's clear that the speaker meant his statement to say that "I don't 
know anything [about this subject]."  Thus, a lie.

Problem the Third: For idiomatic expressions, this means that the _intent_ 
of the speaker is what matters.  A clever person could say something that 
is literally true, but the common idiomatic interpretation would be a lie.  
Our clever speaker knows that what he says is the literal truth, and 
that's the meaning he intends.

Problem the Fourth: This means that the exact same statement, made by the 
exact same person with no intervening events, can register as both true 
and false for successive resonance rolls.  I see this as a bit of a 
difficulty.

Conclusion: the seraphic resonance must convey some limited ability to 
read minds.  That is, to grasp the truth of a statement, you must know 
what the speaker intended the statement to mean.

That strikes me as a definite departure from the usual interpretation.  
Does it make sense to anybody else?  Is there a way around it?

-Mike