Converse accident

The fallacy of converse accident (also called reverse accident, destroying the exception, or a dicto secundum quid ad dictum simpliciter) is an informal fallacy that can occur in a statistical syllogism when an exception to a generalization is wrongly excluded, and the generalization wrongly called for as applying to all cases. For example: If we allow people with glaucoma to use medical marijuana, then everyone should be allowed to use marijuana. The inductive version of this fallacy is called hasty generalization. See faulty generalization. The opposing kind of dicto simpliciter is accident.

Converse accident

The fallacy of converse accident (also called reverse accident, destroying the exception, or a dicto secundum quid ad dictum simpliciter) is an informal fallacy that can occur in a statistical syllogism when an exception to a generalization is wrongly excluded, and the generalization wrongly called for as applying to all cases. For example: If we allow people with glaucoma to use medical marijuana, then everyone should be allowed to use marijuana. The inductive version of this fallacy is called hasty generalization. See faulty generalization. The opposing kind of dicto simpliciter is accident.