0 the act of arguing from a particular case in order to get an unfair advantage in a more general situation
I am not doing some special pleading here.
Despite much special pleading all around, these claims don't obviously decide between the feuding interpretations just mentioned, though that doesn't mean that such passages are equally friendly to all sides.
Of course, at one level, interdisciplinary discussion is all to the good, but it is not merely special pleading to have hoped for a greater contribution from historians.
To maintain otherwise is simply special pleading.
Managing such equity-efficiency trade-offs on the basis of intuition is unsatisfactory in a democracy, as it arouses suspicions of special pleading and favoritism toward vested interests.
They seem to call for special pleading, an extra effort to legitimise their existence, to demonstrate their dramatic relevance.
Yet despite these differences, both fall into the same trap of special pleading when it comes to extrapolating their favourite mechanism into a universal principle.
And familiarity will surely engender popularity: the music needs no special pleading.
