"Dogs are frequently encountered in the streets. Siberian huskies are dogs. Therefore Siberian huskies are frequently encountered in the streets." This arguments is invalid because it commits the fallacy of :
AHasty Generalisation
BSlippery Slope
CDivision ✓ Correct
DComposition
Correct answer: (C) Division
Explanation
The argument commits the fallacy of division.
It takes a feature true of the class of dogs taken generally and transfers it to a particular subgroup, the huskies.
Being frequently encountered in the streets describes dogs as a whole, not necessarily any single breed.
Reasoning from a property of the whole or collective down to its members is the fallacy of division.
The error is the reverse of composition, moving from whole to part.
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