Can we use a title that alludes the opposite of what we're arguing for?
Let's say you decide to claim that time is absolute and not relative as Einstein said. Can you still use a title like "Einstein's time", "Relativity of time", "The geometry of time", "Time dilatation", etc? Why? I sometimes feel there's a gray area where it could be alright, but it's hard for me to identify them, but for a seasoned writer it could be a lot easier. What do you think?
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You can. You are writing a critique of something, and that is the thing in the title.
I could write an article "Cash Bail" and argue how cash bail (in the USA) is discriminatory because it allows rich people to await trial out of jail while forcing poor people that cannot afford thousands of dollars in bail to remain in jail, thus being punished.
Just because you name something in your Title, isn't a promise of what you will say about it. It is a promise that this is what you will be writing about. It shouldn't be misleading.
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