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...

contain fallacies. Because of their variety, fallacies are challenging to classify. They can be classified by their structure (formal fallacies) or content...

(argumentum ad logicam), the fallacy fallacy, the fallacist's fallacy, and the bad reasons fallacy. An argument from fallacy has the following general argument...

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...

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...

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...

The McNamara fallacy (also known as the quantitative fallacy), named for Robert McNamara, the US Secretary of Defense from 1961 to 1968, involves making...

Crossing) to explorations of historiography (Historians' Fallacies, in which he coined the term "historian's fallacy"). Fischer grew up in Baltimore, Maryland...

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...

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...

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...

Chronocentrism Historian's fallacy Moral high ground Whig history Wikipedia:Recentism Hunt, Lynn. (May 2002). "Against Presentism | AHA". Historians.org. Retrieved...

William James characterized when he named the fallacy. Psychology portal Historian's fallacy Mind projection fallacy William James, Principles of Psychology...

consequentialism (ethical theories) Group attribution error Hindsight bias Historian's fallacy List of cognitive biases Gino, Francesca; Moore, Don A.; Bazerman...

and decolonization of knowledge Dark Ages Historical negationism Historian's fallacy / Presentism Invented tradition Modernisation theory Narratives Paradigm...

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...

of the word "medieval" to mean "backwards". Declinism Genetic fallacy Historian's fallacy Myth of progress Presentism (historical analysis) Whig history...

and decolonization of knowledge Dark Ages Historical negationism Historian's fallacy / Presentism Invented tradition Modernisation theory Narratives Paradigm...

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...

The fallacy of accent (also known as accentus, from its Latin denomination, and misleading accent) is a verbal fallacy that reasons from two different...

An overwhelming exception is an informal fallacy of generalization. It is a generalization that is accurate, but comes with one or more qualifications...

and philosophical movements. Michel Foucault rejected narrative, the historian's traditional mode of communication, because of what he believed to be...

and decolonization of knowledge Dark Ages Historical negationism Historian's fallacy / Presentism Invented tradition Modernisation theory Narratives Paradigm...

material fallacies, cognitive fallacies, and formal fallacies, special pleading most likely falls within the category of cognitive fallacy, because it...

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...

"whig history" (lowercase) is preferred. In the British context, whig historians emphasize the rise of constitutional government, personal freedoms and...

and decolonization of knowledge Dark Ages Historical negationism Historian's fallacy / Presentism Invented tradition Modernisation theory Narratives Paradigm...

Scientific Revolution and the beginning of the Enlightenment. European historians traditionally dated its beginning with the death of Louis XIV of France...

and decolonization of knowledge Dark Ages Historical negationism Historian's fallacy / Presentism Invented tradition Modernisation theory Narratives Paradigm...

suggests—in words, as if present. Stone noted two uses of prosopography as an historian's tool, in uncovering deeper interests and connections beneath the superficial...