| | No true Scotsman - Free Encyclopedia of Thelema |
 | | When considering this argument in a context of rhetorical logic, this is a fallacy if the predicate ("putting sugar on porridge") is not actually contradictory for the accepted definition of the subject ("Scotsman"), or if the definition of the subject is silently adjusted after the fact to make the rebuttal work. |
| | Similarly, the True Scotsman may or may not own sheep; it is irrelevant to describing a Scot. |
| | It is also a common fallacy in politics, in which critics may condemn their colleagues as not being "true" liberals or conservatives simply because they occasionally disagree on certain matters of policy. |
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