Inductive Fallacies

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Inductive reasoning uses a move from specific instances to general rules. Inductive (or Generalization) fallacies fail due to breaking the rules of this form of reasoning.

• Composition: Generalizing from a few to the whole set.
• False Analogy: X has property Y. Z is like X. So Z has property Y.
• Hasty Generalization: Generalizing from too-small a sample.

See also

Deductive Fallacies