no true Scotsman fallacy

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Noun

no true Scotsman fallacy (plural no true Scotsman fallacies)

  1. An informal fallacy in which one attempts to defend or protect an a posteriori claim from a falsifying counterexample by covertly modifying the initial claim.

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