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Side discussion concerning the No True Scotsman fallacy. If 100/100 people agreed with "A", does the fallacy still apply? Can you say "just because everyone t
by gameshot911 14y ago
Side discussion concerning the No True Scotsman fallacy. If 100/100 people agreed with "A", does the fallacy still apply? Can you say "just because everyone thinks 'X' doesn't make it fact"^?
^I know that people believing something doesn't define facts - in this case I'm wondering if the fallacy would still apply.
- StavrosK 14y agoOf course it would still apply. The difference here is that some people have a different (yet still immutable) definition for what a game is. The fallacy is when you keep changing the definition to fit the data.
- Karunamon 14y agoExcept that, at least in my case, no such change was made. I took the definition I used directly from a dictionary. It looks like in this case someone is trying really hard to shout down an argument as fallacy when no such error is being made.
- StavrosK 14y agoI know, that's what I was saying.