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squaresinger@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

Throwing around the names of fallacies that don’t apply instead of actual arguments doesn’t further your cause just as much as you might think it does.

The no true Scotsman fallacy applies if:

The main issue here is that using this fallacy, the claim becomes a non-falsifiable tautology. Every Scotsman who puts sugar on his porridge is not a true Scotsman, thus the claim becomes always true by excluding every counter-example.


Let’s apply that to the situation at hand.


Please read up on your fallacies before throwing around the names of them.

When you claim that something is a fallacy, even though the fallacy you claim doesn’t actually apply, then you are doing so to discredit the whole argument without actually engaging with it. This is a perfect example of the Strawman argument, which itself is a fallacy.

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