SCOTSMAN a well know mnemonic used by sales people to qualify project opportunities (Solution, Competition, Originality, Timescales, Size, Money, Authority, Need)
The Scotsman, is the name of a character in the cartoon Samurai Jack
The Scotsman, is the nickname of former pro wrestling & video game writer Graeme McGaw, who also ran a blog and forum. He currently runs an online poker tips website.
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For example, it produces many national newspapers such as The Daily Record (Scotland's leading tabloid), the The Herald broadsheet, based in Glasgow, and The Scotsman in Edinburgh.
The Herald, formerly known as the Glasgow Herald, changed its name to promote a national rather than a regional identity, while The Scotsman, which used to be a broadsheet, recently switched to tabloid format.
Regional dailies include The Courier and Advertiser in Dundee in the east, and The Press and Journal serving Aberdeen and the north.
When considering this argument in a context of rhetorical logic, this is a fallacy if the predicate ("putting sugar on porridge") is not actually contradictory for the accepted definition of the subject ("Scotsman"), or if the definition of the subject is silently adjusted after the fact to make the rebuttal work.
Similarly, the True Scotsman may or may not own sheep; it is irrelevant to describing a Scot.
It is also a common fallacy in politics, in which critics may condemn their colleagues as not being "true" liberals or conservatives simply because they occasionally disagree on certain matters of policy.
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