Thinking About Thinking¶
Flew, A. (1975). Thinking About Thinking: Or, Do I Sincerely Want to Be Right?.
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Primes¶
- Informal Fallacy
- Run the validity check on this inference and it passes: "all things that are both \(X\) and \(Y\) are \(Y\)" is a tautology, valid under every interpretation.
This sourceCoins and analyzes the 'no-true-Scotsman' move — a universal claim rescued from a counterexample by post-hoc redefinition of the subject term, leaving it a content-empty tautology.
- Run the validity check on this inference and it passes: "all things that are both \(X\) and \(Y\) are \(Y\)" is a tautology, valid under every interpretation.
- No True Scotsman
- In argumentation and informal logic it is the original "no true Scotsman puts sugar on his porridge."
This sourceOrigin of the "No true Scotsman" name and the porridge example, presenting the move as an ad-hoc redefinition of a subject term to immunize a universal claim against counterexamples.
- In argumentation and informal logic it is the original "no true Scotsman puts sugar on his porridge."
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