Re:The New York Times to Disband Its Sports Department, Repl...
by asfgisroshnio on Monday July 10, 2023 @12:02PM
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"Beef is not vegan, and all vegans realize this."
"Many vegans think it is vegan."
"No true vegan would think that, therefore, they aren't vegans."
No True Scotsman is about a particular form of reasoning, not any sentence that includes the word "true". It's a form of ad-hoc rationalization where someone rejects counterexamples out of hand. ramraj07 wasn't really making a generalization, and the rejection of the "counterexample" was neither ad-hoc nor unjustified. Many people outside the U.S. have always viewed American liberals as right-wing, and this is justified because American politics actually are right-wing compared to much of the world.
"Many vegans think it is vegan."
"No true vegan would think that, therefore, they aren't vegans."
No True Scotsman is about a particular form of reasoning, not any sentence that includes the word "true". It's a form of ad-hoc rationalization where someone rejects counterexamples out of hand. ramraj07 wasn't really making a generalization, and the rejection of the "counterexample" was neither ad-hoc nor unjustified. Many people outside the U.S. have always viewed American liberals as right-wing, and this is justified because American politics actually are right-wing compared to much of the world.