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81Inverse gambler's fallacy — The inverse gambler s fallacy is a term coined by philosopher Ian Hacking to refer to a formal fallacy of Bayesian inference which is similar to the better known gambler s fallacy. It is the fallacy of concluding, on the basis of an unlikely… …
82Regression fallacy — The regression (or regressive) fallacy is an informal fallacy. It ascribes cause where none exists. The flaw is failing to account for natural fluctuations. It is frequently a special kind of the post hoc fallacy. Explanation Things like stock… …
83Existential fallacy — The existential fallacy, or existential instantiation, is a logical fallacy committed in a categorical syllogism that is invalid because it has two universal premises and a particular conclusion. In other words, for the conclusion to be true, at… …
84Historical fallacy — The Historical fallacy, also called the psychological fallacy, is a logical fallacy originally described by philosopher John Dewey in 1896. The historical fallacy occurs when a set of considerations which hold good only because a completed… …
85Syllogistic fallacy — Syllogistic fallacies are logical fallacies that occur in syllogisms. They include: Any syllogism type (other than polysyllogism and disjunctive): *fallacy of four terms Occurring in categorical syllogisms: *affirmative conclusion from a negative …
86Accident (fallacy) — The logical fallacy of accident, also called destroying the exception or a dicto simpliciter ad dictum secundum quid, is a deductive fallacy occurring in statistical syllogisms (an argument based on a generalization) when an exception to the… …
87Planning fallacy — The planning fallacy is the tendency to underestimate task completion times. Real life examples in public policy may include the construction of the Sydney Opera House and the Big Dig, both of which ran many years past their planned schedule.In… …
88Etymological fallacy — The etymological fallacy holds, erroneously, that the original or historical meaning of a word or phrase is necessarily similar to its actual present day meaning. This is a linguistic misconception, based on a mistaken idea concerning the… …
89Ludic fallacy — The ludic fallacy is a term coined by Nassim Nicholas Taleb in his 2007 book The Black Swan . Ludic is from the Latin ludus , meaning play . It is summarized as the misuse of games to model real life situations . [… …
90Association fallacy — An association fallacy is an inductive formal fallacy of the type hasty generalization or red herring which asserts that qualities of one thing are inherently qualities of another, merely by an irrelevant association. The two types are sometimes… …
