Converse accident

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The fallacy of converse accident (also called reverse accident, destroying the exception, or a dicto secundum quid ad dictum simpliciter) is an informal fallacy that can occur in a statistical syllogism (an argument based on a generalization), when a rule that applies only to an exceptional case is wrongly applied to all cases in general.