Historian's fallacy
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title:
Historian's fallacy
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The historian's fallacy is an informal fallacy that occurs when one assumes that decision makers of the past viewed events from the same perspective and having the same information as those subsequently analyzing the decision. It is not to be confused with presentism, a similar but distinct mode of historical analysis in which present-day ideas are projected into the past. The idea was first articulated by British literary critic Matthew Arnold in 1880 and later named and defined by American his
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Type of informal fallacy
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Historian%27s_fallacy
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2024-04-18T10:56:15Z
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