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Originally Posted by [DW]Entropy
well when you define the context and the site you got your definition then it can mean anything you want it to.
Wikipedia : In common parlance, a devil's advocate is someone who takes a position for the sake of argument
Idioms : One who argues against a cause or position either for the sake of argument or to help determine its validity.
Yourdictionary.com : a person who upholds what is regarded as the wrong side or an indefensible cause, perversely or for argument's sake
yes there are many definitions and many uses for a devils advocate. yes you found one and it wasn't what i meant.
Congratulations, you can argue for the sake of arguing, or maybe just feel the need to not have misinterpreted what i said. Either way, i wasn't wrong. Your simply clinging to the first google hit you got and arguing it to death. Feel free to continue and prove my point.
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All those definitions specifically say that the person playing devil's advocate
knows the position he's defending is the wrong one, or at least that he doesn't take it because he knows it's
right. If that's what you're accusing us of, you're wrong. If it's not, then your use of the term "devil's advocate" is wrong. It's really that simple.
As for your last point, if you think I don't know what "devil's advocate" means, you're (again) wrong; I googled it to educate you as to its meaning (you might notice I didn't bother to do so for my first post on the subject, because at that time it was not clear to me you did in fact not know what it meant). You appear unwilling or unable to grasp this, which tells us more about you than it does about me.
P.S. Nice selective quoting, by the way.