Submitted by Wuz314159 t3_11ew5i2 in Pennsylvania
AmpersandJovial t1_jak27ua wrote
Reply to comment by Advanced-Guard-4468 in Community members address 'After School Satan Club' at Saucon Valley school board meeting by Wuz314159
"No True Scotsman, or appeal to purity, is an informal fallacy in which one attempts to protect their universal generalization from a falsifying counterexample by excluding the counterexample improperly."
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."
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