“EFA” is a lousy term. The “FA” is unnecessary, even adding its own ad hominym fallacy, presuming that how the choices were arrived at matters. It doesn’t matter if the choices considered are created by Free Association or by careful selection, for which we already have the fallacy known as Cherry Picking, a.k.a. Incomplete Evidence, a.k.a. Suppressing Evidence. Perhaps a better name for this is the Fallacy of False Alternatives.
The proper argument would be a sound Argument by Case (or Proof By Case). When done poorly for two cases, either because the cases aren’t mutually exclusive or because they don’t span the whole domain, this is called a False Dichotomy or False Dilemma. For more cases, this is an Incomplete Case Analysis or an Incomplete Case Analysis (or in math, an Invalid Proof by Cases). I think a term like Incomplete Categories would be more accurate, or False Categories if the choice of categories is poor...
“EFA” is a lousy term. The “FA” is unnecessary, even adding its own ad hominym fallacy, presuming that how the choices were arrived at matters. It doesn’t matter if the choices considered are created by Free Association or by careful selection, for which we already have the fallacy known as Cherry Picking, a.k.a. Incomplete Evidence, a.k.a. Suppressing Evidence. Perhaps a better name for this is the Fallacy of False Alternatives.
The proper argument would be a sound Argument by Case (or Proof By Case). When done poorly for two cases, either because the cases aren’t mutually exclusive or because they don’t span the whole domain, this is called a False Dichotomy or False Dilemma. For more cases, this is an Incomplete Case Analysis or an Incomplete Case Analysis (or in math, an Invalid Proof by Cases). I think a term like Incomplete Categories would be more accurate, or False Categories if the choice of categories is poor...
No matter how you slice it, EFA is a lousy term.