A Fallacy of Division is the reasoning error that occurs when one arguments or assumes that if something is true for a whole then it must also be true for some or for all of its parts.
The opposite of this fallacy is called the Fallacy of Composition, which arises when one fallaciously attributes property of some part of something to the thing as a whole.
30 October 2020 - 5 November 2020
We’ve selected for you the most engaging news (tweets) from Australian news agencies. The selection method is based on statistics of logical fallacies found in the retweets and comments.
“Victoria Police are facing off with hundreds of anti-lockdown protesters in Melbourne, with capsicum spray already been used on some attendees…”
Begging the Question (literal translation from latin petitio principii) is a logical fallacy where the premise on which the conclusion is based, is already assumed to be true. This allows one to make an argument without sufficient evidence. The term begging the question is first credited to Aristotle as one of the thirteen fallacies listed in De Sophisticis Elenchis, the first work to address the subject of deductive reasoning.
Fallacy of Composition, composition fallacy, faulty induction or exception fallacy - is a type of argument when one claims that if something is true for the part then that is true for the whole or the group too.
This fallacy is related to the fallacy of hasty generalization, in which an unwarranted inference is made from a statement about a sample to a statement about the population from which it is drawn. The Fallacy of Composition is the converse of the Fallacy of Division.
23 October 2020 - 29 October 2020
We’ve selected for you the most engaging news (tweets) from Australian news agencies.
How did we understand them being the most engaging? That’s simple. Those that have comments with logical fallacies of a particular kind. For example, if a comment contains Ad Hominem, we consider this tweet a bit triggering, or if it contains False Dilemma, then it’s probably Food for Thought. You see the idea.