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Are you familiar with the No True Scotsman logical fallacy?

• hutzlibu 4y ago
  Yes, but I do not know, what you are trying to tell me.
  • yakshaving_jgt 4y ago
    I am suggesting that you are making exactly this kind of fallacious argument when you say “No (sane) person would ever claim, that it is the right language for every problem.”
    • hutzlibu 4y ago
      "in which one attempts to protect their universal generalization from a falsifying counterexample by excluding the counterexample improperly" This would be the wiki definition. But where is your falsifying counterexample? You mean the video, which says below: "This talk does not represent anyone's actual opinion. For a more serious take on software, try .."?
      • yakshaving_jgt 4y ago
        It's fairly easy to find falsifying counterexamples — it's not such an uncommon opinion. Also I believe the author of the video is clarifying in the statement you quoted that he isn't trying to take a position on the state of the industry.