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No True Scotsman

The fallacy of attempting to make a generalization true by changing the generalization to exclude a counterexample.

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Person A: "No Scotsman puts sugar on his porridge." Person B: "But my uncle Angus is a Scotsman and he puts sugar on his porridge." Person A: "But no true Scotsman puts sugar on his porridge."