• LittleBorat3@lemmy.world
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    16 hours ago

    Can the “federal government” not step in and end this whole sharia thing in this province?

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        13 hours ago

        No. That logical fallacy is completely misunderstood and posted everywhere. It only occurs when you continue to shift the goalposts. If someone makes a claim and defends it continuously, then the fallacy does not occur.

        “No true Scotsman or appeal to purity is an informal fallacy in which one modifies a prior claim in response to a counterexample by asserting the counterexample is excluded by definition.[1][2][3] Rather than admitting error or providing evidence to disprove the counterexample, the original claim is changed by using a non-substantive modifier such as “true”, “pure”, “genuine”, “authentic”, “real”, or other similar terms.[4][2]”

        https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_true_Scotsman