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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 which eliminate so many cases that what remains is much less impressive than the initial statement might have led one to believe.[1]
Examples
edit- "Our foreign policy has always helped other countries, except of course when it is against our National Interest..."
- The false implication is that their foreign policy always helps other countries.
The rhetorical use of the fallacy can be used to comic effect, as in the below examples:
- "All right, but apart from the sanitation, the medicine, education, wine, public order, irrigation, roads, a fresh water system, and public health... what have the Romans ever done for us!?" – Monty Python's Life of Brian
- The attempted implication (fallacious in this case) is that the Romans did nothing for them.
- "Well, I promise the answer will always be yes. Unless no is required." – Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa
- "Any customer can have a car painted any color that he wants so long as it is black." – My Life and Work by Henry Ford
See also
edit- Faulty generalization – other fallacies involving generalization
References
edit- ^ Fischer, D. H. (1970), Historians' Fallacies: Toward A Logic of Historical Thought, Harper torchbooks (first ed.), New York: HarperCollins, p. 127, ISBN 978-0-06-131545-9, OCLC 185446787
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