Paper 1 · Logical Reasoning
UGC NET December 2023 (08.12.2023) Shift-II
'If you love hot cake and you love ice cream, then you will surely love hot cake ice cream.' Which fallacy is committed in the above argument?
AFallacy of composition ✓ Correct
BSlippery slope
CFallacy of division
DHasty generalization
Correct answer: (A) Fallacy of composition — The argument commits the fallacy of composition, so the answer is fallacy of composition.
Explanation
★The argument commits the fallacy of composition, so the answer is fallacy of composition.
★The fallacy of composition assumes what is true of the parts is true of the whole.
★Here liking each ingredient is taken to mean liking their combination.
★But a property of the parts need not hold for the whole.
★Liking hot cake and ice cream separately does not guarantee liking them combined.
★So this is the fallacy of composition, not division, slippery slope or hasty generalization.
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