Hello this is logic teacher Gene Roddenberry's #1 Fan and welcome to another episode in my Vulcan Logic Course. Previously I talked about the Halo Empire's top two favorite types of logical fallacies which are the Ad Hominem and the Straw Man. In this post I will be talking about a form of CHEATING known as Moving the Goalposts!
Definition: A logical fallacy that changes the standards of proof once their opponent has met the original standards of proof to claim that their opponent has not proven anything. This is not only fallacious; it is a form of CHEATING, and therefore unfair.
Sample: "You have been educating me on logical fallacies but that should not apply to science fiction. So you have not proven that
Halo is bad by pointing out my so-called fallacies or by showing me a video about its supposed ties to the Pentagon."
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Halo goon had clearly lost the debate with his
Star Trek opponent so in a desparate bid to claim victory, the
Halo goon suddenly changed the standards of proof to claim that their opponet did not prove anything when in fact they did.
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