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a) There is such a thing as a false Scotsman b) There is such a thing as a true Scotsman c) The end I don't think this is correct. It's as if the NTS is not a useful idea. I think it is. I think it is a real phenomena that some people when arguing try to eliminate problematic counterexamples, for e...

Watch the video I gave you. I did and the video makes the same assumptions you do, AND the comments seem to support what I have been saying. For instance, in the video it says: “Simply put, if you assert All S are R, and someone finds and S that is not R,…” who is to say that that someone actually ...

Atla wrote: ↑Thu Nov 30, 2023 5:24 am Now there are two of them. With such skills how do they stay alive in adulthood?

Now there are three of them. With such an inability to read and properly address others' posts in a logical way how are we suppose to take anything they say about logical fallacies seriously?

You're an idiot. :| This isn't a sufficient argument against anything I've said, so everything I have said still stands. Watch the video I gave you. I did and the video makes the same assumptions you do, AND the comments seem to support what I have been saying. For instance, in the video it says: “...

So how do we determine who has "the authority to prescribe what being a Scotsman/Christian is"? Both sides justify their positions as well as they can. Which is what I said in my first post in the thread: Person A: "No Scotsman puts sugar on his porridge." Person B: "But my...

So how do we determine who has "the authority to prescribe what being a Scotsman/Christian is"? Going back to my first post: 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: &q...

The no true Scotsman fallacy is an attempt to pass something off as the case when it has not been established to be the case. The person committing the fallacy is assuming the authority to prescribe what being a Scotsman is when he is not entitled to do so. An example. Person 1: Christianity has be...

The no true Scotsman fallacy is not a problem, it is a technique sometimes used in argument, but it is a type of invalid argument. It isn't something to be solved; it just needs recognising as invalid, and disqualifying as such. Right. What makes it an invalid argument? What are you recognizing, an...

The no true Scotsman fallacy is not a problem, it is a technique sometimes used in argument, but it is a type of invalid argument. It isn't something to be solved; it just needs recognising as invalid, and disqualifying as such. Right. What makes it an invalid argument? What are you recognizing, an...

What made you deviate from that strategy and engage in a conversation in order to create a problem that did not hitherto exist, I wonder. 🤔 Please quote the post(s) where I did that. The no true Scotsman fallacy is a very simple concept; even I understand it, but it is glaringly obvious that you do...

a) There is such a thing as a false Scotsman b) There is such a thing as a true Scotsman c) The end Wrong on all counts It's exactly like you do not understand the problem How does this actually address what Advocate said? Is there such a thing as a false Scotsman and such a thing as a true Scotsma...

Perhaps we could just define a woman with a bike between her legs as a lady cyclist then, but she could never be a true Scotsman, even if she were born and bred in Scotland. 🚵‍♀️ I don't define a woman like that. I define woman like the vast majority of people that use the English language do. You ...

No True Scotsman is not a conundrum, it's a well known fallacy. It is redundant to show that a fallacy is fallacious. The problem of philosophy that Wittgenstein complains about is more at an incoherence in the language game being played. It's as though you sat down to play a game of chess (definin...

There is no difference between a Scotsman and a true Scotsman. A Scotsman is a Scotsman and has nothing to do with what you eat. It's not a problem of logic. It's a problem of improper language use, as are many philosophical conundrums. No True Scotsman is not a conundrum, it's a well known fallacy...

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." This is simply a category error. A Scotsman is not defined by what they eat....