Paper 1 · Logical Reasoning
UGC NET December 2021 June 2022 (10.10.2022) Shift-I
'Human beings are animals because as homo sapiens we all evolved thousands of years ago.' Which informal fallacy is committed in the above argument?
AFallacy of composition and division ✓ Correct
BFallacy of accident
CFalse cause
DRed herring
Correct answer: (A) Fallacy of composition and division — The answer is the fallacy of composition and division.
Explanation
★The answer is the fallacy of composition and division.
★The argument slides between what is true of the group and what is true of each member.
★It moves from the species evolving together to a claim about human beings as such.
★This confusion of whole and part is the fallacy of composition and division.
★So this fallacy is the one committed.
★The other options do not describe this whole-part shift.
★So the answer is the fallacy of composition and division.
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