Consider the statement: 'All phenomena in the universe are saturated with moral values. Therefore, we can conclude that the universe for the Chinese is a moral universe.' Which informal fallacy is committed in the above statement?
ASlippery slope
BBegging the Question
CHasty Generalisation
DFallacy of Composition ✓ Correct
Correct answer: (D) Fallacy of Composition
Explanation
The argument commits the fallacy of composition.
It moves from each phenomenon bearing moral value to the whole universe being moral.
A property of the individual parts is transferred to the entire whole.
What is true of every part need not be true of the collection taken as one.
Reasoning from parts to whole in this way is the fallacy of composition.
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