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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commitment Equivocation Gatekeeping List of fallacies Loaded language Moving the goalposts Persuasive definition Reification (fallacy) Republican in Name Only...
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AI effect (redirect from AI effect in the United States)
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...
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Just-world fallacy (section The self as victim)
The just-world fallacy, or just-world hypothesis, is the cognitive bias that assumes that "people get what they deserve" – that actions will necessarily...
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Goal (sports) (redirect from Goalposts)
Rugby. Retrieved 30 November 2016. Safire, William (28 October 1990). "On Language; Moving the Goalposts". The New York Times. Retrieved 29 March 2018....
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Guilt trip Hypnosis The Imaginary (psychoanalysis) Isolation to facilitate abuse Let the Wookiee win Mind control Moving the goalposts Noisy investigation...
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List of fallacies (category Pages that use a deprecated format of the math tags)
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...
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Loki's wager (section The wager)
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...
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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...
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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...
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modest and easy to defend (the "motte") and one much more controversial and harder to defend (the "bailey"). The arguer advances the controversial position...
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Curse of Tippecanoe (redirect from Curse of the Prophet)
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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Cookie Moving the goalposts Normalisation of deviance Overton window Principiis obsta (et respice finem) - 'resist the beginnings (and consider the end)'...
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South Sydney Rabbitohs (redirect from The Rabbitohs)
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...
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Ken McElroy (category Unsolved murders in the United States)
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...
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the goalposts No true Scotsman Relativist fallacy "special pleading". English Oxford Living Dictionaries. Oxford University Press. Archived from the original...
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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...
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Circular reasoning (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica with Wikisource reference)
to accept the premises unless one already believes the conclusion, or that the premises provide no independent ground or evidence for the conclusion...
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Argument from ignorance (redirect from Shifting the burden of proof)
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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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(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 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...
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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...
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Abilene paradox (redirect from The Abilene Paradox)
committee Elephant in the room False consensus effect Group polarization Groupshift Keynesian beauty contest Moving the goalposts Peer pressure Pluralistic...
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Whistleblowing (redirect from Blowing the whistle)
the closet", moving clandestinely behind the scenes, salmon swimming upstream against the current of power. Over the years, I have learned that the motivations...
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Ad hominem (redirect from Against the man)
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...
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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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discredit the opponent's argument by attacking the opponent's own personal behavior and actions as being inconsistent with their argument, so that the opponent...
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