Moving the goalposts (or shifting the goalposts) is a metaphor, derived from goal-based sports such as football and hockey, that means to change the rule...

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The just-world fallacy, or just-world hypothesis, is the cognitive bias that assumes that "people get what they deserve" – that actions will necessarily...

researchers to deal only with the 'failures', the tough nuts that couldn't yet be cracked." It is an example of moving the goalposts. Tesler's Theorem is: AI...

Rugby. Retrieved 30 November 2016. Safire, William (28 October 1990). "On Language; Moving the Goalposts". The New York Times. Retrieved 29 March 2018....

Guilt trip Hypnosis The Imaginary (psychoanalysis) Isolation to facilitate abuse Let the Wookiee win Mind control Moving the goalposts Noisy investigation...

Definitional retreat – changing the meaning of a word when an objection is raised. Often paired with moving the goalposts (see below), as when an argument...

the 'pound of flesh' agreement was nullified Moving the goalposts Quibble (plot device) – The use of the fallacy as a plot device Vagueness Boudry, Maarten...

because the similarity is based on oversimplification or ignorance of additional factors. The pattern of the fallacy is often as such: If A is the set containing...

and the building's furnace develops a fault. The manager blames the tenant's arrival for the malfunction. One event merely followed the other, in the absence...

modest and easy to defend (the "motte") and one much more controversial and harder to defend (the "bailey"). The arguer advances the controversial position...

including confusing correlation with causation, cherrypicking, and moving the goalposts. In layman's terms, out of many unlikely eerie patterns, at least...

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August 2001, from the ABC website. See the chapters Reclaim the Game and Taking it to the Streets in Mark Courtney's Moving the Goalposts, Halstead Press...

United States. He was known as "the town bully", and his unsolved killing became the focus of international attention. Over the course of his life, McElroy...

the goalposts No true Scotsman Relativist fallacy "special pleading". English Oxford Living Dictionaries. Oxford University Press. Archived from the original...

to accept the premises unless one already believes the conclusion, or that the premises provide no independent ground or evidence for the conclusion...

another person or animal by way of bodily contact. In most cases, children are the victims of physical abuse, but adults can also be victims, as in cases of...

an attempt to shift the burden of proof. The term was likely coined by philosopher John Locke in the late 17th century. "I take the view that this lack...

accomplished as many feats as Person C or Person A. The reverse, appealing to the fact that no one has the proper experience in question and thus cannot prove...

propositional logic. It is defined as a deductive argument that is invalid. The argument itself could have true premises, but still have a false conclusion...

events, within which individuals perceive little or no chance to escape. In the ICD-11 classification, C-PTSD is a category of post-traumatic stress disorder...

the red herring falls into a broad class of relevance fallacies. Unlike the straw man, which involves a distortion of the other party's position, the...

is the logical fallacy of taking something for granted because it is possibly the case. The fact that an event is possible does not imply that the event...

(argumentum ad logicam), the fallacy fallacy, the fallacist's fallacy, and the bad reasons fallacy. An argument from fallacy has the following general argument...

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the closet", moving clandestinely behind the scenes, salmon swimming upstream against the current of power. Over the years, I have learned that the motivations...

strategy where the speaker attacks the character, motive, or some other attribute of the person making an argument rather than the substance of the argument...

Doxing or doxxing is the act of publicly providing personally identifiable information about an individual or organization, usually via the Internet and without...

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