https://wiki4men.com/w/index.php?action=history&feed=atom&title=No_true_Scotsman 2026-04-04T00:50:45Z Revision history for this page on the wiki MediaWiki 1.35.13 https://wiki4men.com/w/index.php?title=No_true_Scotsman&diff=72925&oldid=prev 2023-11-16T06:24:37Z

<p>Partial import from https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=No_true_Scotsman&amp;oldid=1184347100</p> <table class="diff diff-contentalign-left diff-editfont-monospace" data-mw="interface"> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <tr class="diff-title" lang="en"> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">← Older revision</td> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">Revision as of 06:24, 16 November 2023</td> </tr><tr> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 1:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 1:</td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" class="diff-empty">&#160;</td> <td class="diff-marker">+</td> <td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>[[No true Scotsman]], or '''appeal to purity''', is an informal fallacy in which one attempts to protect their generalized statement from a falsifying counterexample by excluding the counterexample improperly. Rather than abandoning the falsified universal generalization or providing evidence that would disqualify the falsifying counterexample, a slightly modified generalization is constructed ad-hoc to definitionally exclude the undesirable specific case and similar counterexamples by appeal to rhetoric. 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Robert Brockway https://wiki4men.com/w/index.php?title=No_true_Scotsman&diff=72923&oldid=prev 2023-11-16T06:21:00Z

<p>Robert Brockway moved page <a href="/wiki/No_true_scotsman" class="mw-redirect" title="No true scotsman">No true scotsman</a> to <a href="/wiki/No_true_Scotsman" title="No true Scotsman">No true Scotsman</a></p> <table class="diff diff-contentalign-left diff-editfont-monospace" data-mw="interface"> <tr class="diff-title" lang="en"> <td colspan="1" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">← Older revision</td> <td colspan="1" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">Revision as of 06:21, 16 November 2023</td> </tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-notice" lang="en"><div class="mw-diff-empty">(No difference)</div> </td></tr></table>

Robert Brockway https://wiki4men.com/w/index.php?title=No_true_Scotsman&diff=6376&oldid=prev 2019-11-19T15:09:17Z

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Robert Brockway https://wiki4men.com/w/index.php?title=No_true_Scotsman&diff=6375&oldid=prev 2019-11-19T15:07:58Z

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