Paper 1 · Logical Reasoning
UGC NET June 2024 Re-Exam (21.08.2024) Shift-II
Identify the fallacy committed in the following statement: 'Water is a non-poisonous compound. Therefore, its components oxygen and hydrogen are non-poisonous.'
AFallacy of division ✓ Correct
BEquivocation
CSlippery slope
DHasty generalization
Correct answer: (A) Fallacy of division — The statement commits the fallacy of division, so that is the answer.
Explanation
★The statement commits the fallacy of division, so that is the answer.
★The fallacy of division assumes what is true of the whole must be true of its parts.
★Here water as a whole is non-poisonous.
★The argument concludes its parts, oxygen and hydrogen, are non-poisonous.
★But a property of the whole need not hold for its parts.
★So this is the fallacy of division, not equivocation, slippery slope or hasty generalization.
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