Examples of 'true scotsman' in a sentence
Meaning of "true scotsman"
The phrase 'true Scotsman' is used in the context of a No True Scotsman fallacy. It refers to a logical fallacy in which someone redefines or adds conditions to an initial claim in order to exclude counterexamples and protect the claim from being proven false. For example, someone might say, 'No true Scotsman would ever eat a hotdog with ketchup,' implying that only a 'true' Scot would follow this rule
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No true Scotsman would betray his country.
There is no true Scotsman.
No true Scotsman would.
Do Austrian economists respond to counterexamples by resort to the No True Scotsman Fallacy?
I see no true Scotsman in the future.
Logical fallacy / No true Scotsman.
Apparently no true Scotsman puts sugar on his porridge either.
A big ol ' bucket of No True Scotsman.
No true Scotsman fallacy.
This time he says, " No true Scotsman would do such a thing.
True Scotsman problem.
But you know, true scotsman and all that rot.
No true Scotsman - makes a generalization true by changing the generalization to exclude a counterexample.
Right… . and no true Scotsman puts sugar on his porridge.
James, No true Scotsman puts sugar on his porridge.
See also
Person A, " But no true Scotsman puts sugar on his porridge.
Flew developed the No true Scotsman fallacy in his 1975 book, Thinking About Thinking.
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