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Logical Fallacies of Historians
In Aviezer Tucker (ed.), A Companion to the Philosophy of History and Historiography. Oxford, UK: Wiley‐Blackwell. pp. 262–273 (2008)
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This chapter contains sections titled: Types of Fallacy Logical Fallacies of Historians Fallacies and Historians References.
types of fallacy ‐ formal and informal logical fallacies of historians fallacies and historians ‘anachronism’ ‐ error where past events are interpreted according to frameworks that did not exist at the time ‘ethnomorphism’ ‐ conceptualization of characteristics of another group in terms of one's own reductive fallacy ‐ reducing a complex history to a simple one
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