English Language Experts

[Bucky Breeder]

I'm looking for a term used to describe a common generalization fallacy.

When someone says "Rosie is a pig" and the response is "He's attacking all
women therefore he's a misogynist"; or when someone says "Comey was a
crooked cop" and the response is "He's attacking all law enforcement
therefore he's undermining our law enforcment institutions"; or someone
says "They are fake news" and the response is "He's attacking the First
Amendment and our free press"; etc. Those are broadly stroked widely cast
generalizations from the minutia and very specific event to a vast category
which is essentially incorrect (fallacious) logic.

It seems there is a very specific term for this type of hyperbole, but I
cannot recall what it is. Any semanticists, syntacticists or pramagticists
out there who recall that part of middle-school English classes?

Thanks in advance.

[Mike Easter]

Post by Bucky Breeder
I'm looking for a term used to describe a common generalization fallacy.
When someone says "Rosie is a pig" and the response is "He's attacking all
women therefore he's a misogynist";

In the list of fallacies, in the faulty generalization section, is the
secundum quid et simpliciter -- hasty generalization/ broad brush fallacy.

"Hasty generalization (fallacy of insufficient statistics, fallacy of
insufficient sample, fallacy of the lonely fact, hasty induction,
secundum quid, converse accident, jumping to conclusions) – basing a
broad conclusion on a small sample or the making of a determination
without all of the information required to do so." wp List of fallacies

[Whiskers]

Post by Mike Easter

Post by Bucky Breeder
I'm looking for a term used to describe a common generalization fallacy.
When someone says "Rosie is a pig" and the response is "He's
attacking all women therefore he's a misogynist";

In the list of fallacies, in the faulty generalization section, is the
secundum quid et simpliciter -- hasty generalization/ broad brush fallacy.
"Hasty generalization (fallacy of insufficient statistics, fallacy of
insufficient sample, fallacy of the lonely fact, hasty induction,
secundum quid, converse accident, jumping to conclusions) – basing a
broad conclusion on a small sample or the making of a determination
without all of the information required to do so." wp List of
fallacies

<https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Category:Logic>

[Mike Easter]

Post by Whiskers

Post by Mike Easter

Post by Bucky Breeder
I'm looking for a term used to describe a common generalization fallacy.
When someone says "Rosie is a pig" and the response is "He's
attacking all women therefore he's a misogynist";

In the list of fallacies, in the faulty generalization section, is the
secundum quid et simpliciter -- hasty generalization/ broad brush fallacy.
"Hasty generalization (fallacy of insufficient statistics, fallacy of
insufficient sample, fallacy of the lonely fact, hasty induction,
secundum quid, converse accident, jumping to conclusions) – basing a
broad conclusion on a small sample or the making of a determination
without all of the information required to do so." wp List of fallacies

<https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Category:Logic>

Ooh. That is a nice array.

For BB's issue, I think I would pick their item overgeneralization;
there isn't a 'broad brush' in that array, but if one goes to that
item's discussion, it gives alternate names which includes 'hasty
conclusions'.

https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Overgeneralization