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Conjunction Fallacy
Anecdotal evidence is evidence from anecdotes. Where The conjunction fallacy is a formal fallacy that occurs
only one or a few anecdotes are presented, there is a larger when it is assumed that specific conditions are more probable
chance that they may be unreliable due to cherry-picked or than a single general one.
otherwise non-representative samples of typical cases.
6. Masked-Man Fallacy
2. Appeal to Probability
In philosophical logic, the masked-man fallacy (also
An appeal to probability (or appeal to possibility) is known as the intentional fallacy and the epistemic fallacy) is
the logical fallacy of taking something for granted because it committed when one makes an illicit use of Leibniz's lawin an
would probably be the case (or might possibly be the case). argument. Leibniz's law states that, if one object has a certain
Inductive arguments lack deductive validity and must therefore be property, while another object does not have the same property,
asserted or denied in the premises. the two objects cannot be identical.