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Accident
Definition:
A general rule is applied when circumstances suggest that an exception
to the rule should apply.
Examples:
i.
The law says that you should not travel faster than 50 kph, thus even
though your father could not breathe, you should not have travelled
faster than 50 kph.
ii.
Proof:
Identify the generalization in question and show that it is not a universal
generalization. Then show that the circumstances of this case suggest
that the generalization ought not to apply.
Accident (fallacy)
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The informal fallacy of accident (also called destroying the exception or a dicto simpliciter ad
dictum secundum quid) is a deductively valid but unsound argument occurring in statistical
syllogisms (an argument based on a generalization) when an exception to a rule of thumb[1] is
ignored. It is one of the thirteen fallacies originally identified by Aristotle in Sophistical Refutations.
The fallacy occurs when one attempts to apply a general rule to an irrelevant situation.
For example:
Accident fallacy
Accident fallacy
The Accident fallacy, or a dicto simpliciter ad dictum secundum quid, is when generalizations are applied
to circumstances when they are otherwise flukes or exceptions. The broader the generalization, the weaker it
tends to be, and is more prone to this type of fallacy. In other words, it is insisting that the rule of thumb applies
even to the exceptions.
Examples
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Example 2
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God did evil things in pursuit of doing good, and still be good
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