• The historian's fallacy is an informal fallacy that occurs when one assumes that decision makers of the past viewed events from the same perspective and...
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  • contain fallacies. Because of their variety, fallacies are challenging to classify. They can be classified by their structure (formal fallacies) or content...
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  • (argumentum ad logicam), the fallacy fallacy, the fallacist's fallacy, and the bad reasons fallacy. An argument from fallacy has the following general argument...
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  • The McNamara fallacy (also known as the quantitative fallacy), named for Robert McNamara, the US Secretary of Defense from 1961 to 1968, involves making...
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    A fallacy is the use of invalid or otherwise faulty reasoning in the construction of an argument that may appear to be well-reasoned if unnoticed. The...
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  • David Hackett Fischer (category Historians of the United States)
    Crossing) to explorations of historiography (Historians' Fallacies, in which he coined the term "historian's fallacy"). Fischer grew up in Baltimore, Maryland...
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  • A faulty generalization is an informal fallacy wherein a conclusion is drawn about all or many instances of a phenomenon on the basis of one or a few...
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  • In logic and philosophy, a formal fallacy is a pattern of reasoning rendered invalid by a flaw in its logical structure that can neatly be expressed in...
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  • The furtive fallacy is an informal fallacy of emphasis in which historical outcomes are asserted to be the result of hidden (furtive) misconduct or wrongdoing...
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  • of novelty, there is no fallacy (e.g. "Song A is currently a much better bet for your party than song B."). Historian's fallacy Myth of progress Shiny...
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  • William James characterized when he named the fallacy. Psychology portal Historian's fallacy Mind projection fallacy William James, Principles of Psychology...
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  • Presentism (historical analysis) (category Informal fallacies)
    Chronocentrism Historian's fallacy Moral high ground Whig history Wikipedia:Recentism Hunt, Lynn. (May 2002). "Against Presentism | AHA". Historians.org. Retrieved...
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  • equivocation ("calling two different things by the same name") is an informal fallacy resulting from the use of a particular word or expression in multiple senses...
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  • Outcome bias (redirect from Outcome fallacy)
    consequentialism (ethical theories) Group attribution error Hindsight bias Historian's fallacy List of cognitive biases Gino, Francesca; Moore, Don A.; Bazerman...
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  • and decolonization of knowledge Dark Ages Historical negationism Historian's fallacy / Presentism Invented tradition Modernisation theory Narratives Paradigm...
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    well-qualified historian's testimony that was disregarded by a United States court because he was a member of a feminist group), providing the historian uses the...
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  • Chronological snobbery (category Relevance fallacies)
    of the word "medieval" to mean "backwards". Declinism Genetic fallacy Historian's fallacy Myth of progress Presentism (historical analysis) Whig history...
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    History (section Historians)
    production of accurate accounts of past. Therefore, the constitution of the historian's archive is a result of circumscribing a more general archive by invalidating...
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  • and decolonization of knowledge Dark Ages Historical negationism Historian's fallacy / Presentism Invented tradition Modernisation theory Narratives Paradigm...
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  • The fallacy of accent (also known as accentus, from its Latin denomination, and misleading accent) is a verbal fallacy that reasons from two different...
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  • An overwhelming exception is an informal fallacy of generalization. It is a generalization that is accurate, but comes with one or more qualifications...
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  • and philosophical movements. Michel Foucault rejected narrative, the historian's traditional mode of communication, because of what he believed to be...
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    Annales Ecclesiastici by Cardinal Caesar Baronius. Baronius was a trained historian who produced a work that the Encyclopædia Britannica in 1911 described...
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    and decolonization of knowledge Dark Ages Historical negationism Historian's fallacy / Presentism Invented tradition Modernisation theory Narratives Paradigm...
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  • and decolonization of knowledge Dark Ages Historical negationism Historian's fallacy / Presentism Invented tradition Modernisation theory Narratives Paradigm...
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  • place in less than 15 minutes. It had taken 72 years to rectify a great historian's error about what happened during those minutes. After the proclamation...
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  • material fallacies, cognitive fallacies, and formal fallacies, special pleading most likely falls within the category of cognitive fallacy, because it...
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  • This is a list of historians categorized by their area of study. See also List of historians and List of women historians by area of study. Sedat Alp...
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    Scientific Revolution and the beginning of the Enlightenment. European historians traditionally dated its beginning with the death of Louis XIV of France...
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  • the development of popular history to the increase of writers-turned-historians such as Benson Lossing, David Pae, and Mary Botham Howitt,[globalize]...
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