• 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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    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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  • In logic and philosophy, a formal fallacy is a pattern of reasoning rendered invalid by a flaw in its logical structure. Propositional logic, for example...
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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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  • 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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  • becomes conscious and visible to him. Psychology portal Historian's fallacy Mind projection fallacy William James, Principles of Psychology volume I. chapter...
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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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    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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    creates an apparent wind for those inside. It is crucial to avoid the Historian's fallacy and note that these experimenters did not expect that a mechanical...
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  • believe in X and actually believe that he did X in the 21st Century?" Historian's fallacy Myth of progress Shiny object syndrome "How to argue", How to Win...
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  • historiographers List of historians Modern Greek literature Roman historiography Grant, Michael (1995). Greek and Roman Historians: Information and Misinformation...
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  • The Historikerstreit (German: [hɪsˈtoːʁɪkɐˌʃtʁaɪt] , "historians' dispute") was a dispute in the late 1980s in West Germany between conservative and left-of-center...
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    weakness, but it achieved military success against Westerners on land. The historian Edward L. Dreyer stated, "China's nineteenth-century humiliations were...
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  • Guardian. Retrieved October 8, 2024. Fischer, David Hackett (1970). Historians' Fallacies: Toward a Logic of Historical Thought. Harper Perennial. ISBN 0-06-131545-1...
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    catalogs; solo work; access; and appraisal. Many archivists are also trained historians specializing in the period covered by the archive. There have been attempts...
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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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    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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    conceived. Using both quantitative data and qualitative sources, economic historians emphasize understanding the historical context in which major economic...
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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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