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* "All Americans are useless at foreign languages. Ok, I'll make an exception for those who live in multi-ethnic neighbourhoods, have parents who speak a foreign language, are naturally gifted in languages, have lived abroad or who went to a school with a good foreign language program, but the rest are absolutely useless at foreign languages."

* All dogs are black, except for those which are not black. (This is also a [[Tautology (rhetoric)|tautology]], or rather a [[tautology (logic)#Tautologies versus validities in first-order logic|validity]].)

*"Except for that Mrs. [[Lincoln]], how was the show.?" This is a fallacy because Mrs. Lincoln, can obviously not ignore her husband's assassination.

See also [[faulty generalization]] for other fallacies involving [[generalization]].