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Overwhelming Exception Accurate Generalization Large Impressive Initial Statement

The overwhelming exception fallacy presents an accurate generalization that is rendered unimpressive due to having excessively large exceptions.

L'eccezione schiacciante presenta una generalizzazione accurata ma con eccezioni così ampie da renderla poco significativa.

Fallacy Overwhelming exception
Definition and Examples An accurate generalization with such large exceptions so that it is much less impressive than the initial statement.

Tags: fallacies, logic

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