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    It is not the case that Therefore, even if false principles were the more common cause historically, this would not establish that invalid inference is a lesser or subordinate category of error in any logically significant sense.

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    • 1.If invalid inferences rarely occur in practice, they may have less explanatory power for understanding actual human error patterns.
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    • 2.The distinction between false premises and invalid inference may collapse in real reasoning, where both often co-occur systematically.
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    • 3.Logical significance should reflect what categories of error actually matter for evaluating reasoning quality in substantive domains.
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    • 1.Logical categories are determined by their structural properties, not by historical frequency of occurrence in human reasoning.
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    • 2.Invalid inference violates fundamental laws of logic (like non-contradiction), making it distinct in kind from errors of premise.
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    • 3.A category's theoretical significance depends on its definitional boundaries, which remain constant regardless of empirical prevalence.
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