No True Goldman

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.

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.

Source

Gnomon Chronicles School of Counter-Economics.

In the News

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  "Believing that Trump cares about you is the same as believing a stripper cares about you."
  But— she jumped out of a cake!
  "Did you miss me?" she asked.
  The roar of the mob was all the answer I needed.
  Grabbing her by the second layer, I licked frosted bunting until—" (Excerpt from Trump Cake.)

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  How many gold bars per day can a man publicly dump into the sea and yet have money left over to pay naval mercenaries to guard the site 24 by 7 by 365 so that no one ever raises that gold?

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  A true accounting of wealth in America would reveal the multi-trillion-dollar business that is organized crime in America.

Fiction cross-reference

• A true accounting of wealth in America
• Crimes against mathematical constants
• Gnomon algorithm
• Gnomon Chronicles
• Trump Cake
• Wealth

External links

• Post @ Twitter (21 June 2021)