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id, aliases, title, tags, dg-publish
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Ambiguity
Not to be confused with uncertainty.
Common Fallacies
Reification Fallacy
[!quote] Reification Reification ... is a fallacy of ambiguity, ...it is the error of treating something that is not concrete... as a concrete thing.
See "the map is not the territory".
[!aside] This one is very common among my peers in estimating. The problem with fallacies, of course, is that you can't simply say "Reification fallacy, booyah". If some one is overgeneralizing, they likely just have a different understanding of the term. Certainty of definition only occurs with some quorum, and I'd argue most of construction-estimating don't meet it, and that the choice of any term over another ought to be based on utility.
Note also that a term's definition can be certain
on some axis, but ambiguouson another. See "I know it when I see it" which, as far as I'm concerned, is a perfectly legitimate definition.
Equivocation Fallacy
The misleading use of a word with more than one meaning
Composition Fallacy
Assuming a whole has a property because its parts have that property
Division Fallacy
Assuming parts have a property because the whole has that property