Inductive fallacies

tendency of people to favor information that confirms their beliefs or hypotheses

fallacy of incomplete evidence

evidence collected in a casual or informal manner and relying heavily or entirely on personal testimony

logical fallacy in which a party asserts that a relatively small first step leads to a chain of related events culminating in some significant effect

tendency and mental shortcut of preferring an item with more available information

parable from the ancient Indian subcontinent, in which several blind men feel and try to conceptualize an elephant

fallacy when one infers that something is true of the whole from the fact that it is true of some part of the whole

paradox arising from an incorrect proof by mathematical induction

Fallacy that equates a probable event to a certain one

process of reaching a conclusion about all or many instances of a phenomenon, on the basis of one or a few instances of that phenomenon

form of cognitive bias in which a decision is based upon supporting a desired outcome rather than the preponderance of evidence

making a decision based solely on quantitative observations (or metrics) and ignoring all others

type of inductive argument, whereby perceived similarities are used as a basis to infer some further similarity that has yet to be observed

informal fallacy of generalization

logical fallacy

Type of Logical Fallacy

type of logical fallacy