0 the act of arguing from a particular case in order to get an unfair advantage in a more general situation
But this seems a recourse to special pleading.
Yet a closer reading of his text reveals an uncomfortable number of instances of what might be termed special pleading.
Quite so, but all the relevant chapters on the origin of life show how the entire area is dogged by incomplete arguments and special pleading.
It will take no special pleading to argue that another was race.
This is not special pleading, the guidelines suggested, this is general pleading.
Some special pleading is required to decide between the two possibilities.
In hindsight, what may seem the most peculiar is the degree of special pleading that has accompanied some claims for cryptic intervals of evolution.
And familiarity will surely engender popularity: the music needs no special pleading.
