A researcher argues: 'The research institute has an excellent reputation. Hence, every research paper published by its members must be excellent.' The argument commits:
AFallacy of Division ✓ Correct
BEquivocation
CAppeal to Ignorance
DRed Herring
Correct answer: (A) Fallacy of Division
Explanation
The argument commits the fallacy of division.
Division wrongly transfers a property of a whole or group to each of its individual members.
Here the excellent reputation belongs to the institute taken as a collective body.
That collective merit is then pushed down onto every single paper by its members.
Reasoning from the whole to its parts in this way is the fallacy of division.
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