Question #1030

Regarding "Expert" Term Shift

Started by EmmaOhanian · started 2021-04-23 19:20 · last activity 2022-03-15 23:53 · 2 replies

In this passage, it appears that we had to treat the variable of "expert in some branch of psychology" and "expert" (in the following sentence) as the same. But doesn't merely saying someone is an "expert" not necessarily translate to them being an "expert in some branch of psychology?" It feels like a huge term shift.

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  1. ajcaviness · 2022-02-24 06:46

    ^^ exactly my confusion here. Can someone explain.

  2. Emil-Kunkin · 2022-03-15 23:53

    Hi @ajcaviness, you're right that there is a subtle shift in terminology here, but in this case it doesn't impact the argument. We are told that only an expert in psych would be able to do something, but no expert would do that. We can assume that what is true of all experts is true of experts in psych. The psych experts are a subset of all experts.

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