Month: April 2018 (Page 1 of 2)
Assuming that something which is true of a thing must also be true of some or all of its parts (reverse of the Fallacy of Composition).
Examples:
Ex. #1: “The puzzle is mostly blue. Therefore, all pieces will also be mostly blue.”
Ex. #2: “America is going to war. All Americans are proponents of this war.”
Note: this simplified illustration does not necessarily represent actual statistical proportions
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