The parent comment was making a philosophical argument, not a semantics one.
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Yes, it means proper application of the term means you have to know what went into its training data (or current context), but you'd have to make those assumptions anyway to be able to put any credence at all to any of its outputs.
If one really wants to know if LLMs "are capable of planning", one should keep an open mind for how planning behavior can manifest in textual form, then actually try to find any manifestations. Imposing one's view of how planning should look like is bad science. All they've proved is that their task format sucks for current generation LLMs.