No I’m responding directly. The purposeful conflation of terms to muddy definitions and confuse the argument is called equivocation

Cognitive dissonance is a psychology phenomenon where people separate contradicting ideas they hold and place a barrier between them in their mind to avoid ever thinking of both at the same time because it causes pain, the same type of mental discomfort we experience when we are confronted with being wrong about something.

Kind of the opposite of what they were discussing, where multiple things get shoved into one amorphous blob.