Historian's fallacy

Historian's fallacy – occurs when one assumes that decision makers of the past viewed events from the same perspective and having the same information as those subsequently analyzing the decision.


(Not to be confused with presentism, which is a mode of historical analysis in which present-day ideas, such as moral standards, are projected into the past.)

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Historian's fallacy
(Shifting the) Burden of proof
Argument from ignorance
Argument from repetition
Argument from silence
Argument to moderation
Argumentum verbosium
Begging the question
Circular cause and consequence
Continuum fallacy
Correlation does not imply causation
Correlative-based fallacies
Ecological fallacy
Equivocation
Etymological fallacy
Fallacy of composition
Fallacy of division
Fallacy of many questions
Fallacy of the single cause
False attribution
False dilemma
Gambler's fallacy
Homunculus fallacy
If-by-whiskey
Ignoratio elenchi
Incomplete comparison
Inconsistent comparison
Intentional fallacy
Kettle logic
Ludic fallacy
Mind projection fallacy
Moving the goalposts
Nirvana fallacy
Onus probandi
Petitio principii
Post hoc ergo propter hoc
Proof by verbosity
Prosecutor's fallacy
Psychologist's fallacy
Red herring
Regression fallacy
Reification
Retrospective determinism
Self-contradiction
Special pleading
Straw man
Wrong direction
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