Fisher D. Historians' Fallacies: Toward a Logic of Historical Thought

New York: HarperPerennial, 1970. — 358 p. — ISBN10: 0060904984; ISBN13: 978-0061315459.Professor Fischer's intentions in this book are clear and simple. His concerns are the ways in which historians set about their inquiries, the nature of their explanations of what they have observed, and the manner in which they present their 'arguments'—i.e., their solutions to problems, for "history is... a problem-solving discipline" His approach to these matters, however, is via the propensity of historians to fall into error, and in particular into methodological error. Most of his pages are devoted to a demolition job, to pulling down some of the wrong signs (categorized as an infinity of fallacies) which are found along the historian's path. To this catalogue of misdirections he adds "a few crude but hopefully more correct markers" to the true highroad which a properly professional historian should tread. These indicators are not less important because they bulk smaller than the list of historical fallacies.InquiryFallacies of Question-Framing
Fallacies of Factual Verification
Fallacies of Factual SignificanceExplanationFallacies of Generalization
Fallacies of Narration
Fallacies of Causation
Fallacies of Motivation
Fallacies of Composition
Fallacies of False AnalogyArgumentFallacies of Semantical Distortion
Fallacies of Substantive Distraction