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Inductive, Abductive, and Best-Explanation Fallacies

Shows how support miscalibration and option-space failure produce different species across evidence-based reasoning, and why good diagnosis has to track the mode of inference.

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In this lesson · 7 sections · 5 worked examples · 2 practice activities

Why inductive failures are about calibration, not invalidity
Sample-based fallacies: hasty generalization, biased sampling, and cherry-picking
Causal fallacies: post hoc, correlation-causation, and single-cause fixation
Abductive and best-explanation failures
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