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fallacy of composition

fallacy when one infers that something is true of the whole from the fact that it is true of some part of the whole
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fallacy of composition

Summary

fallacy of composition ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (177 views/month).[1]

Key Facts

  • fallacy of composition's subclass of is recorded as fallacy of distribution[2].
  • fallacy of composition's subclass of is recorded as relevance fallacy[3].
  • fallacy of composition's subclass of is recorded as verbal fallacy[4].
  • fallacy of composition's opposite of is recorded as fallacy of division[5].
  • fallacy of composition's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/02l85y[6].
  • fallacy of composition's Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID is recorded as topic/fallacy-of-composition[7].
  • fallacy of composition's Microsoft Academic ID is recorded as 144588120[8].
  • fallacy of composition's TV Tropes ID is recorded as Main/FallacyOfComposition[9].

Why It Matters

fallacy of composition ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (177 views/month).[1] It has Wikipedia articles in 15 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[10] It is known by 6 alternative names across languages and contexts.[11]

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [2] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [6] ↑ . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  6. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [10] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [11] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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