>[!abstract] >The appeal to novelty (also called *appeal to modernity* or *argumentum ad novitatem*) is a logical fallacy in which one prematurely claims that an idea or proposal is correct or superior, exclusively because it is new and modern. In a controversy between status quo and new inventions, an appeal to novelty argument is not in itself a valid argument. The fallacy may take two forms: overestimating the new and modern, prematurely and without investigation assuming it to be best-case, or underestimating status quo, prematurely and without investigation assuming it to be worst-case. Investigation may prove these claims to be true, but it is a fallacy to prematurely conclude this only from the general claim that all novelty is good. (Wikipedia, 2025). >[!related] >- **North** (upstream): — >- **West** (similar): [[Chronocentrism]] >- **East** (different): [[Appeal to tradition]] >- **South** (downstream): [[Chronological snobbery]]