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Division (logical fallacy) - Definition and Overview |
| Related Words: Rn, Seabees, Aberration, Abstraction, Addition, Adjunct, Affiliate, Affiliation, Airspace, Alien, Alienation, Allotment, Alteration, Anacrusis, Analysis |
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A fallacy of division occurs when someone reasons logically that something that is true of a thing must also be true of its constituents. For example, an airplane may fly across the ocean, but it is illogical to believe one of its jet engines could fly across the ocean.
The opposite of this fallacy is called fallacy of composition which arises when one claims the whole is true because its component is true.
A system which as a whole has certain properties that its individual elements do not, is called emergent.
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