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Every term has that property. If there's a thing called T you can say that the good Ts are "real Ts" and the bad Ts are "not real Ts". It means nothing to dismi
by ajkjk 3y ago
Every term has that property. If there's a thing called T you can say that the good Ts are "real Ts" and the bad Ts are "not real Ts". It means nothing to dismiss an idea because of this. In the No True Scotsman fallacy, the fallacy is not the definition of the word "Scotsman", it's the use of arguments of this form.
- Qwertious 3y agoAFAICT the "not true scotsman" is motte-and-bailey applied to the definition of a word - the fallacy isn't the original definition of the word "scotsman", the fallacy is re-defining the word to mean something different and more defensible when you're challenged, and then to redefine it back to the original definition later, to re-include all the insufficiently-burly scots.