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HASTY GENERALIZATION
Tristan ShawA hasty generalization is a broad claim based on too-limited evidence.
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EXAMPLE 1
Act #1, page 189, speaker: Mrs. Putnam
-”I knew it! Goody Osburn were midwife to me three times. I begged you, Thomas, did I
not? I begged him not to call Osburn because I feared her, my babies always shriveled in
her hands…”
-Ann is saying that she doesn’t want Mrs. Osburn as a
midwife because her children died in her hands. This
argument insinuates that Mrs. Osburn killed them,
even though there isn’t any evidence.
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EXAMPLE 2
Act #2, page unknown, speaker: Danforth
- “And do you know that near to four hundred are in the
jails from Marblehead to Lynn, and upon my signature?”
-”And seventy-two condemned to hang by that signature?”
-Because Danforth has signed for the arrest of a lot of
other people, he must be correct for all of them. This is
obviously hasty generalization.
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A N I N C R E D I B L Y S T U P I D V I D E O T H A T T A K E S W A Y T O O L O N G B U T S T I L L M A N A G E S T O G E T T H E
P O I N T A C R O S S :
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