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I think he means that anyone who knows even a smidgen about cars would say v8 and not explain it like the audience didn't know what a v8 was.
by dsmithatx 11y ago
I think he means that anyone who knows even a smidgen about cars would say v8 and not explain it like the audience didn't know what a v8 was.
- raldi 11y agoAh, I see; all true Scotsmen know what a V8 is. (I, for one, appreciated the extra clarification. If the article had just said, "14% of cars we service have a V8" it would have been accessible to a far narrower audience.)
- umanwizard 11y agoThe no true Scotsman fallacy doesn't mean that words don't have meanings or that it's impossible to reason about things. "This person writes like a novice and therefore probably doesn't know much about cars" doesn't invoke the fallacy at all, regardless of whether it happens to be true.
- raldi 11y agoI was referring to the remark that, "anyone who knows even a smidgen about cars" needs no explanation about V8s. I know more than a smidgen about cars, but I appreciated the explanation. Presumably, OP believes that I must not know a true smidgen about cars.
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