Page Template documentation in the Theme Handbook

This page has the following:

Page templates only apply to pages, not to any other content type (like posts and custom post types).

A little further down, it has this:

Page templates display your site’s dynamic content on a page, e.g., posts, news updates, calendar events, media files, etc.

Isn’t that a contradiction? As I understood it, the first quote is correct, and the second is incorrect: Page Templates are not for posts.