Slothful induction

What it is

Refuses to accept a conclusion that strong evidence supports, attributing it to coincidence or chance.

Related

• Motivated reasoning bias
  Explaining away overwhelming evidence as coincidence is motivated reasoning.
• Simple, pain-avoiding psychological denial bias
  Refusing to accept the obvious conclusion is denial in an argument.

References

• Wikipedia: Slothful induction en.wikipedia.org
• Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy: Fallacies iep.utm.edu
• Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy: Fallacies plato.stanford.edu
• Wikipedia: List of fallacies en.wikipedia.org
• Purdue OWL: Logical fallacies owl.purdue.edu

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