English Explanatory Dictionary

fallacy of composition

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun

A presumption that if something is true of part(s) of a whole, then it is true of the whole itself.

Word forms

fallacy of composition fallacies of composition

Antonyms

fallacy of division

Related words

spotlight fallacy

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