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no true Scotsman fallacies

no true Scotsman fallacies is the plural of no true Scotsman fallacy.

Meaning of no true Scotsman fallacy

Noun

no true Scotsman fallacy (plural no true Scotsman fallacies)

  1. An informal fallacy in which one attempts to defend or protect an a posteriori claim from a falsifying counterexample by covertly modifying the initial claim, especially transforming it into a tautology by saying that any counterexamples are ipso facto not valid members of the class being described.

Questions about no true Scotsman fallacies

What is no true Scotsman fallacies the plural of?
No true Scotsman fallacies is the plural of no true Scotsman fallacy.

Words near no true Scotsman fallacies in the dictionary

  1. no tickee, no washee
  2. no time
  3. no time like the present
  4. no time to lose
  5. no trespassing
  6. no true Scotsman fallacies
  7. no true Scotsman fallacy
  8. no trump
  9. no trumps
  10. no two ways about it
  11. no use

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