If everyone simply avoided logical fallacies all would be good but what we see is that even the people who write books on the subject will lapse into logical fallacy when their biases are challenged. It is simply astounding. I post on the site www.logicallyfallacious.com and the owner of the site, Bo Bennett, has published books on critical thinking, logical fallacies and on biases even but when I post things he doesn't like he will resort to ad hominem, censorship or avoidance. An interesting example is my most recent post where the only response was from the resident AI bot (unprecedented for only the AI bot to respond) and it responded in an oh-so-human way with logical fallacy and then dropping out of the argument when it was challenged. Bo who mostly always responds said nothing.
This is an interesting master list of logical fallacies by Owen M. Williamson that I've reposted that includes a very important fallacy - the Big Lie (a form of argument by repetition).
If everyone simply avoided logical fallacies all would be good but what we see is that even the people who write books on the subject will lapse into logical fallacy when their biases are challenged. It is simply astounding. I post on the site www.logicallyfallacious.com and the owner of the site, Bo Bennett, has published books on critical thinking, logical fallacies and on biases even but when I post things he doesn't like he will resort to ad hominem, censorship or avoidance. An interesting example is my most recent post where the only response was from the resident AI bot (unprecedented for only the AI bot to respond) and it responded in an oh-so-human way with logical fallacy and then dropping out of the argument when it was challenged. Bo who mostly always responds said nothing.
https://www.logicallyfallacious.com/questions/RDi7vmxg/is_the_misplaced_presumption_fallacy_the_best_fit_for_acceptance_of_the_operation_northwoods_documents_as_genuine.html
This is an interesting master list of logical fallacies by Owen M. Williamson that I've reposted that includes a very important fallacy - the Big Lie (a form of argument by repetition).
https://petraliverani.substack.com/p/master-list-of-logical-fallacies
You might find my post, 12 logical fallacies unmasked in the use of the terms "conspiracy theory" and "conspiracy theorist", of interest
https://petraliverani.substack.com/p/11-logical-fallacies-unmasked-in
For anyone else interested in logical fallacies, a good resource is Leonard Peikoff’s introduction to logic lectures 👍
https://m.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLqsoWxJ-qmMtr7i6D_yvSpPC-hTOzdWas
I think you may have incorrectly defined the "No True Scotsman" (appeal to purity) fallacy. My understanding is that it goes something like this.
A: "No Scotsman wears underwear"
B: "But Hamish is a Scotsman and he's wearing underwear"
A: "No *true* Scotsman wears underwear", or "Then Hamish is no true Scotsman"
See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_true_Scotsman