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fallacy of the perfect dictionary
c. Also in extended use in various phrases denoting other categories of fallacy (chiefly with reference to unsound or defective reasoning), as fallacy of misplaced argument, fallacy of misplaced concreteness, fallacy of simple location, fallacy of the perfect dictionary, etc. (see quots.).In some cases partaking of sense 4a.gambler's fallacy, pathetic fallacy, psychologist's fallacy, etc.: see first element.
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1856 J. Ruskin Mod. Painters III. 160 All violent feelings..produce..a falseness in..impressions of external things, which I would generally characterize as the ‘Pathetic fallacy’.
1890 W. James Princ. Psychol. I. vii. 196 The great snare of the psychologist is the confusion of his own standpoint with that of the mental fact about which he is making his report. I shall hereafter call this the ‘psychologist's fallacypar excellence.
1917 Jrnl. Philos., Psychol. & Sci. Methods 14 653 The second fallacy arises from the attribution of the so-called religious experience to outside, ‘higher’ forces in cases where, in reality, the cause of the experience is merely physiological... This may be called the fallacy of false attribution.
1925 A. N. Whitehead Sci. & Mod. World (1926) iii. 64 The accidental error of mistaking the abstract for the concrete..is an example of what I will call the ‘Fallacy of Misplaced Concreteness’.
1926 Jrnl. Philos. 23 620 No such separation is necessary, in his [sc. A. W. Moore's] opinion, if meanings are recognized as functions of the existential ‘significant symbol’ and the fallacy of ‘simple location’ is avoided.
1929 A. N. Whitehead Process & Reality i. i. 9 The ‘fallacy of misplaced concreteness’..consists in neglecting the degree of abstraction involved when an actual entity is considered merely so far as it exemplifies certain categories of thought.
1931 Mind 40 229 When one first has committed ‘the fallacy of simple location’, to wit, that certain elements in nature must be in one place and cannot possess a duplicity..of spatial situations.
1938 A. N. Whitehead Modes of Thought 235 The very natural belief, that mankind has consciously entertained all the fundamental ideas which are applicable to its experience. Further it is held that human language, in single words or in phrases, explicitly expresses these ideas. I will term this presupposition, the Fallacy of the Perfect Dictionary.
1942 R. G. Collingwood New Leviathan iv. 73 The fallacy of arguing about questions like this is what I call the Fallacy of Misplaced Argument; which may be defined as the fallacy of arguing about any object immediately given to consciousness.
1959 D. Huff How to take Chance xi. 156 Where chance is an important factor, conclusions based on a few instances remain highly untrustworthy—the fallacy of the small sample.
2005 Virginia Law Rev. 91 1651 Scholars and Justices alike frequently fall prey to a related and more insidious lure, which I will call the fallacy of perfect enforcement.
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