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[[|thumb|Earliest known poster referencing the No True Goldman fallacy.]]"'''No True Goldman'''", or appeal to purity, is an informal fallacy in which one attempts to protect their universal generalization from a falsifying counterexample by excluding the counterexample improperly. | [[File:No_True_Goldman.jpg|thumb|Earliest known poster referencing the No True Goldman fallacy.]]"'''No True Goldman'''", or appeal to purity, is an informal fallacy in which one attempts to protect their universal generalization from a falsifying counterexample by excluding the counterexample improperly. | ||
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Revision as of 10:59, 21 June 2021
"No True Goldman", or appeal to purity, is an informal fallacy in which one attempts to protect their universal generalization from a falsifying counterexample by excluding the counterexample improperly.
Discussion
Rather than abandoning the falsified universal generalization or providing evidence that would disqualify the falsifying counterexample, a slightly modified generalization is constructed ad-hoc to definitionally exclude the undesirable specific case and counterexamples like it by appeal to rhetoric.
This rhetoric takes the form of emotionally charged but nonsubstantive purity platitudes such as "true, pure, genuine, authentic, real", etc.
Relationship with No True Scotsman fallacy
See No true Scotsman at Wikipedia.
Commentary
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Fiction cross-reference
- A true accounting of wealth in America
- Crimes against mathematical constants
- Gnomon algorithm
- Gnomon Chronicles
- Wealth
Nonfiction cross-reference
External links
- [ Post] @ Twitter (21 June 2021)