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Originally Posted by Calgaryborn
Photon and others say that scientists have a special English language where words like "trick" don't mean "trick" and every other troubling thing they said is somehow taken out of context. I'm not buying it.
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Of course you aren't buying it.. if they aren't using the word "trick" in the way that you require it to be used, then your whole position is flawed.
Another example of "if it doesn't support what I've decided to be true then it must be false".
From the
Dictionary definition of trick:
5. a clever or ingenious device or expedient; adroit technique: the tricks of the trade.
6. the art or knack of doing something skillfully: You seem to have mastered the trick of making others laugh.
Yeah, using a word as it's defined in the dictionary is so special and sneaky.
If you'd bothered to find out the context of the email and understood it then it would be self evident. But that would interfere with the rhetoric.