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Logical Fallacy of No True Scotsman (a type of stacking the deck)The logical fallacy of No True Scotsman occurs when someone tries to place artificial limits on what will be accepted as a true statement. Examples of the Logical Fallacy of No True Scotsman
This is a very common thing that anti-creationists say. One could tend to believe that someone is perhaps teaching this fallacy in schools somewhere, it is that common. Of course, “believes in creation” is often swapped out for “believes in a young Earth”, “rejects billions of years”, rejects big bang”, “rejects molecules-to-man evolution”, “rejects global warming”, and the list goes on.
Sandy has placed artificial limits on his claim, modifying it to exclude all the exceptions, yet maintaining his dogmatic and self-righteous position. 
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Other Pages in this sectionStacking the Deck Ambiguity Effect McNamara Fallacy Head in the Sand Suppression of the Agent Fading Affect Bias Unteachable Selective Refutation A-Priorism Audiatur Et Altera Pars Ignoring Historical Example Overlooking Secondary Consequences Uncontrolled Factors Missing Link Moving the Goal Posts Gravity Game Demanding Impossible Evidence Unfalsifiability / Untestibility Invincible Ignorance Argument from Ignorance Ad Ignorantiam Question God of the Gaps Argument from Silence No True Scientist Fallacy of Opposition Frozen Abstraction Falsified Inductive Generalization Argument from the Negative Accident Fallacy Reverse Accident Best-in-Field Abductive Fallacy Denialism Logical Fallacy of Reductionism / Oversimplification Very Simple Answer Reductionism Taboo Fallacy Recently Viewed |
