The fallacy of retrospective determinism is the belief that an event was bound to happen simply because it did happen.
L'errore del determinismo retrospettivo è la convinzione che un evento fosse inevitabile dopo che è accaduto.
Fallacy | Retrospective determinism |
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Definition and Examples | it happened, so it was bound to. |
Tags: fallacies, logic
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