A DICTO SIMPLICITER AD DICTUM SECUNDUM QUID

(Lat., from the statement unqualified to the statement qualified) The (alleged) fallacy of arguing from a general to a particular case, without recognizing qualifying factors: ‘If people shouldn’t park here, they shouldn’t park here to help put out the fire.’ With forms of proposition other than generalizations, more evidently invalid arguments might bear this name: ‘If some snakes are harmless, then some snakes in this bag are harmless.’ Also known as the fallacy of the accident.