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In addition, the classical fallacy of post hoc ergo propter hoc cannot be ruled out: evolutionary psychologists arguing from how we behave, to guess why we behave as we do.And anyway, so what?
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Clarke explains that "France, with its tradition of l'état tutélaire rather than principled laissez-faire, did not need to be disabused of these classical fallacies".
However, the Gini coefficient, our exposure variable, is not subject to a classical ecological fallacy because it is a characteristic the LGA that has been measured.
However, later research in corporate foresight and Futures Studies revealed a set of fallacies in the classical view on a linear and "predictable" future [21, 41, 42, 43].
In this way, classical liberalism exemplifies 'the most pervasive fallacy of philosophical thinking'Contextext and Thought', LW5, 5).
A classical criticism of this approach is the 'ecological fallacy', corresponding to a logical fallacy in interpretation of the observed correlations at the population level, assuming that they can be applied at the individual level.
A good representative collection of classical and contemporary essays on the fallacies is found in Hansen and Pinto 1995.
In some classical poetic forms such as the pastoral elegy, the pathetic fallacy is actually a required convention.
Especially when one considers non-fallacy approaches to informal argument, one might compare informal logic to classical formal logic.
"Outright fallacy.
That's another fallacy.
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