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To: Blue Highway
> re: devil's advocate

Yes, the definition you quoted is correct.

Please show me, in your comments, where you took and defended Apple's position (one you disagree with) for the sake of argument to test it.

Maybe I missed it, if so, sorry about that.

43 posted on 03/22/2009 10:47:34 PM PDT by dayglored (Listen, strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government!)
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To: dayglored; Blue Highway
Please show me, in your comments, where you took and defended Apple's position (one you disagree with) for the sake of argument to test it.

Perhaps Blue means that he is really an Apple advocate that is arguing the Windows position?

46 posted on 03/22/2009 10:53:19 PM PDT by Swordmaker (Remember, the proper pronunciation of IE is "AAAAIIIIIEEEEEEE!)
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To: dayglored

When I say devil’s advocate, I mean I am the typical Apple fanatics devil’s advocate. That doesn’t mean I take their position and defend it, it means I test their argument by opposing their ideas. Are you mistakenly misunderstanding the definition of a devil’s advocate?


47 posted on 03/22/2009 10:53:57 PM PDT by Blue Highway
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To: dayglored

I think you’re right I misused the devil’s advocate reference. I have been interpreting it to take on the argument of anothers ideas to test them, not my own. My mistake. What is the word for what I am describing then, and do not say troll, lol.


48 posted on 03/22/2009 10:58:55 PM PDT by Blue Highway
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