Have you ever heard someone make a sweeping generalization that just didn’t sit right with you? Perhaps they assumed that all lawyers are greedy, or that all teenagers are lazy. These kinds of statements are examples of the “Fallacy of Accident,” a common error in reasoning that can lead to flawed or biased thinking. In…
Category: Faulty Generalizations
Faulty Generalisations draw the false conclusion that something is true for all components of a given set, based on the fact that it is true for one or some instances of that set.