No true Scotsman or appeal to purity is an informal fallacy in which one attempts to protect an a posteriori claim from a falsifying counterexample by...

"True Scotsman" is a humorous term used in Scotland for a man wearing a kilt without undergarments. Though the tradition originated in the military, it...

Accident – an exception to a generalization is ignored. No true Scotsman – makes a generalization true by changing the generalization to exclude a counterexample...

If-by-whiskey: an example Mental reservation: a doctrine in moral theology No true Scotsman: changing a definition to exclude a counter-example Persuasive definition:...

Harris criticized such usage of the motte-and-bailey concept for "avoiding a true fight" by portraying the other unfairly, which Harris called the "offensive...

follows the template (i.e. pattern): Person A claims that statement X is true. Person B asserts that A's actions or past claims are inconsistent with the...

cliché Godwin, Mike (October 1, 1994). "Meme, Counter-meme". Wired. Vol. 2, no. 10. Retrieved March 24, 2006. Godwin, Mike (January 12, 1995). "Godwin's...

equivalence False attribution Quoting out of context Loki's Wager No true Scotsman Reification Question-begging Circular reasoning / Begging the question...

that proves the rule Hard cases make bad law Moving the goalposts No true Scotsman Relativist fallacy "special pleading". English Oxford Living Dictionaries...

hypothesis were true. While a true null hypothesis will be accepted 95% of the time, the other 5% of the times having a true null of no correlation a zero...