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> No true Scotsman or appeal to purity is an informal fallacy in which one attempts to protect an a posteriori claim from a falsifying counterexample by covertly modifying the initial claim.

No one has covertly modified the initial claim. UBI has a long-standing definition that’s distinct from welfare.



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