The fallacy of composition infers something is true of the whole simply because it is true of its parts, often ignoring emergent properties.
La fallacia di composizione implica che ciò che è vero per le parti sia vero anche per l'intero, ignorando le proprietà emergenti.
| Fallacy | Fallacy: Composition |
|---|---|
| Definition and Examples | where one infers that something is true of the whole from the fact that it is true of some (or even every) part of the whole. (Ignoring emergent properties) |
Tags: fallacies, logic
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