Converse AccidentAn exception to a generalization is applied to cases where the generalization should apply.
Examples:
Because we allow terminally ill patients to use heroin, we should allow everyone to use heroin.
Because you allowed Jill, who was hit by a truck, to hand in her assignment late, you should allow the entire class to hand in their assignments late.
Proof:
Identify the generalization in question and show how the special case was an exception to the generalization.
References: Copi and Cohen: 100 downes@adminnet.assiniboinec.mb.ca 26 May 1995