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No True Scotsman
"True" doesn't mean "existing" or "is not a falsehood" here, alright? "True" here means "proper". So a proper Scotsman doesn't put sugar on his porridge; such is not proper Scottish etiquette (hypothetically).
Just thought I'd clear that up.
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People don't get that?
While I know that, I think that it being "true" as in "He's not really an scotman by birth" also works for the purposes of the logical exercise.
^ "True" is probably the most common one in practice, though, as in "true PC gamer".
...I don't get your point.
That, in some respects, the No True Scotsman fallacy is more a semantics issue than an actual fallacy.
It means redefining terms to make your argument right.
^^No. No it's not.
The way it goes is that a proud Scotsman says 'A Scotsman would never murder someone' and when pointed out that Scots have done that he'd then say 'No true Scotsman would murder someone' which is about attaching arbitrary rules to what something is or isn't to suit yourself personally.
Yeah, it's when people go "oh that person [somethingsomething]? Then he's not really a [X]" It's kinda deciding for yourself who people are.
They told me I could think critically...
...so I tried challenging one of the classic logical fallacies on its veracity.
It didn't work out.
So you wanted to say that most claimed cases of the "No True Scotsman" fallacy are not true cases of the "No True Scotsman" fallacy?
^^ Go for ad hominem, everybody misuses that one.
No true critical thinker would question the veracity of fallacies!