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"Twisting the truth" in this case is using a term that literally everybody except for one deliberate contrarian understands to mean the same thing.

A good faith argument shouldn't come down to semantics. Once you realize that the other side isn't using a term in the way you think it should be used, you can either stop the debate to argue the semantics, or accept their definition as the terms for the debate.



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