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Division (logical fallacy) - definition of Division (logical fallacy) in Encyclopedia (112 words) |
 | 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. |
| Encyclopedia: Logical-fallacy (4622 words) |
| Amphibology or amphiboly (from the Greek amphibolia) is, in logic, a verbal fallacy arising from ambiguity in the grammatical structure of a sentence. |
| The fallacy of the single cause, also known as joint effect or causal oversimplification, is a logical fallacy of causation that occurs when it is assumed that there is one, simple cause of an outcome when in reality it may have been caused by a number of only jointly sufficient... |
| The logical fallacy of affirming a disjunct occurs in a disjunctive syllogism when an argument takes the form: Either A or B (this is the disjunct) A (Affirming the middle term) Therefore, not B The fallacy lies in concluding that B must be false because A is true; in fact... |
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