fallacy of accident
Saturday, December 16, 2006
Fallacy of accident is an informal fallacy. I learned it in analytical skill (a course in my university) which I found is quite useful for developing our arguments.
Definition from me:
Okay, basically fallacy of accident occurs when we deny the exception!
nih kalo mao yang lengkap
Definition from wikipedia: The logical fallacy of accident, also called destroying the exception or a dicto simpliciter ad dictum secundum quid, is a deductive fallacy occurring in statistical syllogisms (an argument based on a generalization) when an exception to the generalization is ignored. It is one of the thirteen fallacies originally identified by Aristotle. The fallacy occurs when one attempts to apply a general rule to an irrelevant situation.
For example:
All apples are nourishing
Poisoned apples are apples
Poisoned apples are nourishing
For this case, apples, in general, are indeed nourishing. But poisoned apples is a valid exception.
Seems too childish bcoz I took the example from Snow white?
Then, let's go to the more serious occassion at the movie titled 'Hunter "Patch" Adam'. (ini film bagus banget lho, yang maen robin williams)
This movie shows a mom brought her dying child suffering appendicitis to the hospital and requested for an immediate action. But the policy of the hospital stated that she had to fill in the registration form, pay the hospital fee, etc. The hospital didn't consider this occassion as an exception to its policy.
Now, apply it to our lives (from my prof)
The government of Singapore made a rule which prohibited public place to have a trash bin because of several terrorism events are using trash bin to put their bombs.
In this case, the government considers the classroom in SMU as a public place, and therefore, our classes don't have trash bin inside.
If, let's say, there's a trash bin inside and someone put the bomb to the bin, it's really obvious for the student who come into / exit the classroom since usually the bin is located near the entrance or the exit. It's better for the person who wants to put the bomb by putting the bomb inside the bag and put it below his table.
In this case, classroom is an exception for the rule and the rigid bureaucracy doesn't consider that as an exception.
So, have you ever experienced this fallacy of accident?
posted by edgar @ 7:47 PM,
1 Comments:
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At 10:40 PM,
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