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Noun Concept
Categories: Cognitive inertia, Goal, Barriers to critical thinking, Misuse of statistics, Informal fallacies
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moving the goalposts  Change the goal post  goalpost-moving  Goalpost moving  Move the goal posts
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Moving the goalposts is a metaphor, derived from goal-based sports, that means to change the rule or criterion of a process or competition while it is still in progress, in such a way that the new goal offers one side an advantage or disadvantage. Wikipedia
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Moving the goalposts is a metaphor, derived from goal-based sports, that means to change the rule or criterion of a process or competition while it is still in progress, in such a way that the new goal offers one side an advantage or disadvantage. Wikipedia
Phrase originating from goal sports, now describing by metaphor a kind of logical fallacy or debate tactic Wikidata
IS A
metaphor
informal fallacy
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goalpost
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moving the goalposts
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moving the goalposts
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Change the goal post, Goalpost moving, Move the goal posts, Move the goalpost, move the goalposts, Moved the goalpost, moved the goalposts, Moving back the goalpost, Moving back the goalposts, Moving goalpost, Moving goalpost fallacy, Moving goalposts, Moving the goal post, Moving the goal posts, Moving the goalpost, Moving the Goalposts, Post disputatio argument, Post disputation argument, Shifting the goalpost, shifting the goalposts
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goalpost-moving

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