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Ep. 314: Mengzi (Mencius) on Moral Psychology (Part Two)

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The No True Scotsman Fallacy

The no true Scotsman fallacy is a way of defending your generalization by equivocating about making the subject of the first Generalization less strong. Some things are not true to type like apples aren't true to type if you have a sweet apple and you take it seeds and grow it It won't necessarily grow an apple tree that grows sweet apples What is the generalization that you would be making? I'm not sure. Maybe maybe your point actually was about it. No matter how damned up it would be You wouldn't deny that they had that aspect to them. Yeah, you could say there is a disposition there That's completely unexpressed right in the same way that someone lacking legs

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