Monday, August 25, 2008

Composition

The composition fallacy occurs when someone mistakenly assumes that a characteristic of some or all the individuals in a group is also a characteristic of the group itself, the group "composed" of those members. It is the converse of the division fallacy.

Example:

Each human cell is very lightweight, so a human being composed of cells is also very lightweight.

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