In the context of critical thinking, which of the following is true of the fallacy of retrospective determinism?

A. It asserts that what happened historically had to happen, and it had to happen just the way it did.
B. It attributes the cause of a particular problem to society and denies individual responsibility.
C. It is an idea, a way of thinking about a particular collectivity of people.
D. It is the tendency to overgeneralize, to use one, two, or three cases to support an entire argument.


Answer: A

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