scotsman

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No True Scotsman puts sugar on his porridge, and No True Developer just installs WordPress.

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A man from Scotland; a Scot.

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noun

A man from Scotland; a Scot.

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Core meanings and parts of speech for scotsman.

noun

A man from Scotland; a Scot.

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No True Scotsman puts sugar on his porridge, and No True Developer just installs WordPress.

How is that No True Scotsman in any way?

Looks like the no true Scotsman fallacy?

Where's that Scotsman when you need him?

>not incremental bug-stomping by plodders but no true Scotsman would do such a thing!

> How is that No True Scotsman in any way?

>If you say someone isn’t a real programmer then you’re falling right into the No True Scotsman fallacy, where say making a spreadsheet is ‘not true programming’ because ‘No True Programmer’ would use a spreadsheet to solve a problem.

Saying that this won't happen if your skills are sufficient is a no-true-scotsman argument—it's all tradeoffs, and no matter how good you are at anticipating change, sooner or later even the best architect will be blindsided by some out-of-the-blue business requirement.

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Making your original comment some what of a "No True Scotsman"

Could you hypothesize who in a true-scotsman communist non-state would regulate people's output ("ability") & input ("need")?

Thanks for introducing me to the "No true Scotsman fallacy".

And if it's claimed that these states aren't 'true democracies' as a result, then that's pretty much a textbook example of the "No True Scotsman" argument.