{"id":2219,"date":"2022-02-04T13:33:07","date_gmt":"2022-02-04T13:33:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2022\/02\/04\/the-no-true-scotsman-or-no-true-muslim-fallacy\/"},"modified":"2022-02-04T13:33:07","modified_gmt":"2022-02-04T13:33:07","slug":"the-no-true-scotsman-or-no-true-muslim-fallacy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2022\/02\/04\/the-no-true-scotsman-or-no-true-muslim-fallacy\/","title":{"rendered":"The No True Scotsman or No True Muslim Fallacy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 13pt;\"><em>Substack<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/williamfvallicella.substack.com\/p\/the-no-true-scotsman-or-no-true-muslim\">latest<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 13pt;\">In logic a fallacy is not a false belief but a pattern of reasoning that is both typical and in some way specious.&#0160;<em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/search?q=specious&amp;ie=utf-8&amp;oe=utf-8\" rel=\"\">Specious<\/a><\/em>&#0160;reasoning, by the very etymology of the term, appears correct but is not. Thus a logical fallacy is not just any old mistake in reasoning, but a typical or recurrent mistake that has some tendency to seduce or mislead our thinking. A taxonomy of fallacies is useful insofar as it helps prevent one from seducing oneself or being seduced by others.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 13pt;\">By the way, the study of logic won&#39;t get you very far, but it is fun and of some use, especially at a time when shockingly mendacious and dimwitted people have taken over the government of the greatest nation on Earth.&#0160; Examples are legion from the top down. You know their names.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Substack latest. In logic a fallacy is not a false belief but a pattern of reasoning that is both typical and in some way specious.&#0160;Specious&#0160;reasoning, by the very etymology of the term, appears correct but is not. Thus a logical fallacy is not just any old mistake in reasoning, but a typical or recurrent mistake &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2022\/02\/04\/the-no-true-scotsman-or-no-true-muslim-fallacy\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The No True Scotsman or No True Muslim Fallacy&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,113,128,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2219","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fallacies-informal","category-logica-utens","category-reason-and-rationality","category-substack"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2219","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2219"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2219\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}