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The fallacy of accident is an informal fallacy and a deductively valid but unsound argument occurring in a statistical syllogism when an exception to a rule of thumb is ignored. It is one of the thirteen fallacies originally identified by Aristotle in Sophistical Refutations. The fallacy occurs when one attempts to apply a general rule to an irrelevant situation.
For example:
Cutting people with knives is a crime. →
Surgeons cut people with knives. →
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