A Q. for "True Highlanders"

[Kornkob]

Every time I see one of these 'real scotsman' discussions I recall college philosophy classes and the 'No true Scotsman' fallacy.

[Jordan]

Jock, do you think we could successfully campaign to ban trakkies north of Hadrian's wall? (I'd settle for north of Lanark!)

I would vote for that as long as its south of Aberdeen!

Every time I see one of these 'real scotsman' discussions I recall college philosophy classes and the 'No true Scotsman' fallacy.

That sounds interesting care to expand?

Now back on topic, I can kind of see the whole Its mine and you cant wear it point of view, but as stated above if thats the case then the Kilt will die out sooner than later. If everyone can wear it and pay some attention as to where it came from then the kilt should last forever IMHO.

Just my tuppence however

Jordan

[McClef]

Your friend doesn't sound as if he would wear a kilt even if he was a highlander himself!

[Kornkob]

That sounds interesting care to expand?

Not that it is relevant to this discussion specifically but... its the fallacy where an assertion is made that a scotsman would never do something and when an example to the contrary is found the assertion is that that person is no TRUE scotsman. Usually the initial assertion is begging the question and the speaker falls into NTS by refusing to acknowledge the initial fallacy.

the No True Scotsman Fallacy was one of the couple dozen fallacies that I remember studying in college.

Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_true_Scotsman