Association fallacy

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What Wikipedia says

The association fallacy is a formal fallacy in which it is assumed that, if a concept, whether physical or abstract, has certain properties, any other concept belonging to the same group as the first must also share these properties.

Excerpt from the Wikipedia article “Association fallacy”, under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license. Read the article on Wikipedia

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