A Practical Study of Argument¶
Govier. (2009). A Practical Study of Argument.
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Domain-specific¶
- Fallacy of Composition
- Examples include concluding that a crowd must be easy to move because each person is mobile, that universal saving must increase total income because saving benefits one household, that a team must be excellent because each member is individually excellent, or that a large structure must be light because each component is light
This sourceGovier's informal-logic textbook supplies the general diagnosis these examples instantiate - a whole is characterised by its parts in particular relationships, so predicate transfer needs warrant; the saving-and-income case is Keynes's paradox of thrift and is not sourced here.
- Examples include concluding that a crowd must be easy to move because each person is mobile, that universal saving must increase total income because saving benefits one household, that a team must be excellent because each member is individually excellent, or that a large structure must be light because each component is light
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