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Re:I am sick of the media saying "Hacker" when they mean "Bl... by burtonlang on Wednesday March 26, 2014 @10:25AM (#7473548)
My understanding of the No True Scotsman fallacy involves changing a definition during an argument in order to hold on to some assertion.

This is not the same thing as a person feeling that a particular word should have a particular meaning.

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Re:I am sick of the media saying "Hacker" when they mean "Bl... by coldtea on Wednesday March 26, 2014 @03:45PM (#7476003)
The problem is the person seen as "changing a definition" could very well have had the second definition in his mind all along.
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