What is a word you feel that too many people use?
I hate hearing people use the term “devil’s advocate”. People who normally say it is use it to say something awful. Has a very Ricky Bobbie feeling.
I just can’t take you seriously.
The definition is simple.
The advocatus diaboli (Latin for Devil’s advocate) is a former official position within the Catholic Church, the Promoter of the Faith: one who “argued against the canonization (sainthood) of a candidate in order to uncover any character flaws or misrepresentation of the evidence favoring canonization”.[1]
In common language, the phrase ‘playing devil’s advocate‘ describes a situation where someone, given a certain point of view, takes a position they do not necessarily agree with (or simply an alternative position from the accepted norm), for the sake of debate or to explore the thought further using valid reasoning that both disagrees with the subject at hand and proves their own point valid. Despite being medieval in origin, this idiomatic expression is one of the most popular present-day English idioms used to express the concept of arguing against something without actually being committed to the contrary view.[2] Playing devil’s advocate is considered a form of the Socratic method.[3]
For me they never make good points, just argue none sense. I just don’t have time in my life to argue to past time.
Reminds me of Neil Degrass Tyson wet blanketing Star Wars movies.
