PIRIE, MADSEN (2006)(2015) How To Win Every Argument, Bloomsbury, London.
The fallacy of secundum quid is known as the hasty generalization. (182).
This occurs when a generalization is reached with very few cases and perhaps not reasonable representations. (182-183).
Premises and conclusions would be taken from specific cases in attempt to make them generalizations. These will be based on inadequate premises and conclusions.
Based on the author's example on page 184:
'All Hollywood actors are left wing. Here are two examples.'
The entire industry is not entirely comprised of left wing actors. It is often documented in various forms of media that generally Hollywood actors and the industry is left wing. However, the term 'all' creates a hasty generalization. It is fallacious here to use the term 'all'.
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'The fallacy of neglecting qualification, which trades on the mistaken idea that what is true with certain qualifications is also true without them. It is always identified with the fallacy of accident, which applies a general principle or rule with-out regard to the specific aspects of the circumstances of its application. Secundum quid has an additional form, which generalizes a rule from one instance that may be atypical or exceptional. In this form it is the fallacy of hasty generalization or the fallacy of converse accident, because contrary to the fallacy of accident, it moves from the particular to the general.'
Accident fallacy has been covered previously in reviews and does move from the general premise (s) to the specific conclusion. See archives via search.
From the unqualified statement to the statement qualified. (7). Blackburn writes that is an (alleged) fallacy. (7). Arguing from the general case to the specific, particular case. (7).
All American, evangelicals are fundamentalists.
Therefore, evangelical x is a fundamentalist.
The converse accident fallacy or reverse accident fallacy argues that specific premise (s) leads to a general conclusion.
Evangelical x is a fundamentalist.
All American, evangelicals are fundamentalists.
This distinction can be confusing for the reader as I have found via research the converse accident fallacy is considered within accident fallacy. I am not disagreeing with the definitions. The hasty generalization would be within accident fallacy/converse accident fallacy with a specific premise (s) leading to a general conclusion.
BLACKBURN, SIMON (1996) Oxford Dictionary of Philosophy, Oxford, Oxford University Press.
PIRIE, MADSEN (2006)(2015) How To Win Every Argument, Bloomsbury, London.
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