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Also, it has 4 legs, so it must be a cat.


(Corroboration, not deduction: "has four legs, so it is more probably a cat". That is vs falsification: "short, hence not all managers are tall". Which does not work anyway going from the logical context to the stochastic context, because it becomes "the exception that confirms the rule". I trust you knew, but.)


lol, more like a warped version of this:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Politician%27s_syllogism

or, more probably I have used a fallacy to analogize the wrong fallacy :)




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