The fallacy of composition is an informal fallacy that arises when one infers that something is true of the whole from the fact that it is true of some...

number of informal fallacies have been identified, including the fallacy of equivocation, the fallacy of amphiboly, the fallacies of composition and division...

Both the fallacy of division and the fallacy of composition were addressed by Aristotle in Sophistical Refutations. In the philosophy of the ancient...

accident – Informal fallacy Fallacy of composition – Fallacy of inferring on the whole from a part Fallacy of the single cause – Assumption of a single cause...

Affirming a disjunct – Formal fallacy Essentialism – View that entities have identifying attributes Fallacy of composition – Fallacy of inferring on the whole...

contain fallacies. Because of their variety, fallacies are challenging to classify. They can be classified by their structure (formal fallacies) or content...

frames Composition roller, cast from a hide glue and molasses used in brayers and inking rollers for letterpress and other relief printing Fallacy of composition...

A straw man fallacy (sometimes written as strawman) is the informal fallacy of refuting an argument different from the one actually under discussion, while...

member of a class) and collective (referring to the class itself as a whole) sense. There are two variations of this fallacy: Fallacy of composition – assumes...

A fallacy is the use of invalid or otherwise faulty reasoning in the construction of an argument that may appear to be well-reasoned if unnoticed. The...