also, the no true Scotsman fallacy.

From Wikipedia:

No true Scotsman, or appeal to purity, is an informal fallacy in which one attempts to protect their universal generalization from a falsifying counterexample by excluding the counterexample improperly.

Rather than abandoning the falsified universal generalization or providing evidence that would disqualify the falsifying counterexample, a slightly modified generalization is constructed ad-hoc to definitionally exclude the undesirable specific case and counterexamples like it by appeal to rhetoric.This rhetoric takes the form of emotionally charged but nonsubstantive purity platitudes such as "true, pure, genuine, authentic, real", etc.

Philosophy professor Bradley Dowden explains the fallacy as an "ad hoc rescue" of a refuted generalization attempt.[1] The following is a simplified rendition of the fallacy:[6]

Person A: "No Scotsman puts sugar on his porridge."
Person B: "But my uncle Angus is a Scotsman and he puts sugar on his porridge."
Person A: "But no true Scotsman puts sugar on his porridge."


OR here:

zn: Name a qb who thrived because of public insults and derision.

stlramz: Tom Brady comes to mind. Arians criticized his GRIT and DECISION making Last year (a Super Bowl winning year).

zn: No one ever said "do not criticize the qb in public." . . . Arians shows respect for Brady.

Conclusion: Arians not a true scotsman?



Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 06/06/2021 07:06PM by stlramz.