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Frozen Abstraction FallacyThe Frozen Abstraction Fallacy occurs when a personal view of what a given thing is (a subset of the class), for what the thing actually is (the wider class). This is very similar to or the same as the no true Scotsman fallacy. Examples of the Frozen Abstraction Fallacy
Note that the wider class would include all scientists; however, the personal view of what that class ought to be is used to filter out all the scientists except those who hold certain unproven presuppositions to be true. The No Child Left Behind program was designed to make certain that every U.S. child would be educated. However, it only covered government-run schools, and failed to help all the other ways that children are educated outside of the government system. The wider class would be all students, whether in government-run schools or any other education program. The subset of this class, only students in government-run schools, was identified as being the whole of all students when it was only a subset. 
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