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I did not use the word "proves"; the "exception to the rule" fallacy is when you see a singular case violating some rule and you use that to assume the rule doe
by nawgz 4y ago
I did not use the word "proves"; the "exception to the rule" fallacy is when you see a singular case violating some rule and you use that to assume the rule doesn't hold in general, or you make generalizations from a singular case.
The commenter I'm replying to is advocating for homeo- / naturo-pathy because of some statistically insignificant and probably actually not causally based relationship they've witnessed, which is generalizing from a ~singular case