From a chemical perspective any crystalline ionic compound is a salt. They can just as easily be using it in that sense, knowing most people will think table salt.
I haven't heard of this term used before but I've referred to this tactic. I'm going to use this. There's a related technique where they make up new words and use coordinated media to manifest it.
From a chemical perspective any crystalline ionic compound is a salt. They can just as easily be using it in that sense, knowing most people will think table salt.
Yep, word-concept fallacy. When they don't lie with statistics they lie with definitions.
I haven't heard of this term used before but I've referred to this tactic. I'm going to use this. There's a related technique where they make up new words and use coordinated media to manifest it.
It's a term from philosophy of language. It's also known as etymological fallacy.