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When you are told Trump wants to defund the "Postal Service" do you think that is because he wants to replace it with something better? "No True Scotsman" - "d
by aaron695 6y ago
When you are told Trump wants to defund the "Postal Service" do you think that is because he wants to replace it with something better?
"No True Scotsman" - "defund" is changing in an ad hoc fashion.
The Scotsman is the abstract idea of what is "defund"
This is a tactic from the Left, just like changing abortion is a tactic from the Right.
Mark all as false, or don't run around saying ‘no true Scotsman’. I personally don't think ‘no true Scotsman’ is a valid reason to mark something as false.
And I hate the general idea of ‘no true Scotsman’ because the base example in the name is a noun and it's to confusing to apply to ideas.
- bluesign 6y agoMy understanding of “No True Scotsman” is: - You have a set - You are making a claim that covering ALL elements of that set - But you excluding some elements, and claiming that they are actually not really element of that set Example: For example, it is common to argue that "all members of [my religion] are fundamentally good", and then to abandon all bad individuals as "not true [my-religion]-people" [0] I am more like in the “defund police” case, if you are “anti-defund police” camp, you can come up with this fallacy. You can say like “All police men are good”, “if bad it is not true police men at all” But I could’t wrap my mind on the opposite side. [0] https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/No_True_Scotsman https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/No_True_Scotsman