Argument

No true Scotsman

Overview

logical fallacy

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Related ideas

• Antony Flew
• Counterexample
• Informal fallacy
• Tautology (logic)
• A priori and a posteriori
• Bradley Dowden

Place in the tradition

Part of Perennial philosophy.

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