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Thursday, October 28, 2010

Fallacy of division vs Fallacy of composition

Fallacy of division vs Fallacy of composition (W)

A fallacy of division occurs when one reasons logically that something true of a thing must also be true of all or some of its parts.

The converse of this fallacy is called fallacy of composition, which arises when one fallaciously attributes a property of some part of a thing to the thing as a whole.

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