It is also, and if anything even more common in education, to move
goalposts the opposite way, e.g. from science concepts to everyday concepts
or from logic to common sense. See, for example, the sentence beginning
"That is...", which is not a paraphrase but a topic change.
dk
On Fri, Apr 19, 2024, 7:57 AM Dr ChRIS CLÉiRIGh <c.cleirigh@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
Dear Scholars,
This week's informal fallacy is also a resource for bullying.
Moving the goalposts <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moving_the_goalposts>
is an informal fallacy <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Informal_fallacy> in
which evidence presented in response to a specific claim is dismissed and
some other (often greater) evidence is demanded. That is, after an attempt
has been made to score a goal, the goalposts are moved to exclude the
attempt. The problem with changing the rules of the game is that the
meaning of the result is changed, too.
In workplace bullying <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Workplace_bullying>,
shifting the goalposts is a conventional tactic in the process of
humiliation <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humiliation>.
dr chris cléirigh
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