In the Roman Catholic Church there was once an official position known as the Advocatus Diaboli, or Devil’s Advocate. Their task was to be the skeptic, and argu

In the Roman Catholic Church there was once an official position known as the Advocatus Diaboli, or Devil’s Advocate. Their task was to be the skeptic, and argue persuasively against the canonization of a new Saint - essentially an applied version of the third form of dialectic mentioned here.