Revision as of 16:53, 13 December 2023 edit Ltbdl (talk \| contribs) Extended confirmed users 4,466 edits {{logic-stub}} Tag: 2017 wikitext editor ← Previous edit		Revision as of 00:10, 15 April 2024 edit undo Jlwoodwa (talk \| contribs) Autopatrolled, Administrators 106,382 edits tag as one source Tag: Reverted Next edit →
Line 1: {{short description\|Informal fallacy of generalization}} {{one source \|date=April 2024}} An '''overwhelming exception''' is an [[informal fallacy]] of [[faulty generalization\|generalization]]. It is a generalization that is accurate, but comes with one or more qualifications which eliminate so many cases that what remains is much less impressive than the initial statement might have led one to believe.<ref name="Fischer1970">{{citation \|title = Historians' Fallacies: Toward A Logic of Historical Thought \|publisher= HarperCollins \|isbn= 978-0-06-131545-9 \|year=1970 \|___location= New York \|oclc= 185446787 \|series= Harper torchbooks \|edition= first \|first= D. H. \|last= Fischer \|author-link= David Hackett Fischer \|page= 127 \|url= https://archive.org/stream/HistoriansFallaciesTowardALogicOfHistoricalThought/historians_fallacies_toward_a_logic_of_historical_thought#page/n149/mode/2up}}</ref>

Overwhelming exception: Difference between revisions