> Instead of above, the question you need to ask is [...] Yes, excellent point. (And we can go further still.) I've been calling this the "fallacy of ignored

> Instead of above, the question you need to ask is [...] Yes, excellent point. (And we can go further still.) I've been calling this the "fallacy of ignored instantiation". Personally, this is something I've been ruminating on for a while and have meant to do a writeup on it for a couple years now. Hopefully, though, that name is descriptive enough that a certain crowd would, upon hearing it alone, understand almost exactly where I would go with it. (Alternatively, if anyone knows of any good treatments that already exist on this topic, please let me know.)