'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

Explanation

The argument merges two liked parts into a liked whole, the fallacy of composition.

Loving hot cake and loving ice cream are traits of the separate items.

The whole 'hot cake ice cream' need not inherit the appeal of each part.

What is true of components is not automatically true of their combination.

Transferring a part's property to the whole is composition.

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