If Albert's position evolved across his corpus, attributing a single fixed view to him that conflicts with Aquinas commits the fallacy of ignoring diachronic development in a thinker's work.
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Changes in a person's ideas and beliefs over time; recognizing that thinkers often grow, change their minds, or refine their positions as they write more.
fallacy(Whately's definition, Elements of Logic, Bk. III, intro.)
Any unsound mode of arguing which appears to demand conviction and to be decisive of the question at hand, when in fairness it is not