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This is called the fallacy of subjective (or personal) validation, the "I tried it and it worked" argument.
Johnson (1987) argued that the appearance condition makes the occurrence of fallacies too subjective since how things appear may vary from perceiver to perceiver, and it is replaced by a frequency requirement.
Most groups showed enhanced motivation to play following near misses (on a subjective rating) and displayed the gambler's fallacy in their choice on the roulette task; both effects were selectively abolished in the group with insula pathology.
Bugs in our reasoning from the confirmation bias to the gambler's fallacy make our natural thought processes deeply subjective and partial.
According to Kant (at least in one way of resolving the antinomies), the fallacy lies in treating the world as a whole as an object — in mistaking a subjective condition for an objective reality.
"Outright fallacy.
That's another fallacy.
This is a fallacy.
That was a fallacy.
See also naturalistic fallacy.
That's a fallacy.
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