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Applying a general rule to a case its rationale never covered.

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"Cutting people is assault; therefore surgeons are criminals."

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Near-miss: rules genuinely bind in ordinary cases — the fallacy needs a case the rule's *purpose* excludes, not merely an inconvenient one.