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Single Idea 11089

[filed under theme 2. Reason / F. Fallacies / 5. Fallacy of Composition ]

Full Idea

Informal fallacies of composition and division go over into formal fallacies of mereological logic.

Gist of Idea

Formally, composition and division fallacies occur in mereology

Source

Robert Hanna (Rationality and Logic [2006], 7.3)

Book Ref

Hanna,Robert: 'Rationality and Logic' [MIT 2006], p.218

The 5 ideas with the same theme [attributing the properties of members to the set as a whole]:

22571 'If each is small, so too are all' is in one way false, for the whole composed of all is not small [Aristotle]
2653 If the parts of the universe are subject to the law of nature, the whole universe must also be subject to it [Cicero]
6219 The fallacy of composition is the assumption that what is true of the parts is true of the whole [Mautner]
7933 Don't assume that a thing has all the properties of its parts [Macdonald,C]
11089 Formally, composition and division fallacies occur in mereology [Hanna]