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...

In logic and philosophy, a formal fallacy is a pattern of reasoning with a flaw in its logical structure (the logical relationship between the premises...

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...

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

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...

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...

becomes conscious and visible to him. Psychology portal Historian's fallacy Mind projection fallacy William James, Principles of Psychology volume I. chapter...

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

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...

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

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

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...

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

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...

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

believe that he did X in the 21st Century?" Fear of missing out (FOMO) Historian's fallacy Myth of progress Shiny object syndrome "How to argue", How to Win...

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...

historian can read in documents or hear from informants". Historical sources are usually divided into primary and secondary, though some historians also...

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

Soviet writer Ilya Ehrenburg[dead link] and later popularized by British historian Eric Hobsbawm. The concept is an adaption of Fernand Braudel's 1949 notion...

weakness, but it achieved military success against Westerners on land. The historian Edward L. Dreyer stated, "China's nineteenth-century humiliations were...

Annales Ecclesiastici by Cardinal Caesar Baronius. Baronius was a trained historian who produced a work that the Encyclopædia Britannica in 1911 described...

conceived. Using both quantitative data and qualitative sources, economic historians emphasize understanding the historical context in which major economic...

United States. Ranking systems are usually based on surveys of academic historians and political scientists, or popular opinion. The scholarly rankings focus...

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...

Second World War. In December 1999, a BBC Radio 4 poll of 20 prominent historians, politicians and commentators for The Westminster Hour produced the verdict...