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Which fallacy is involved in the following statement: 'Indian pharmaceutical companies are profitable, therefore the average Indian pharmaceutical company is profitable'?

AFallacy of Division ✓ Correct
BHasty Generalization
CSlippery Slope
DFallacy of Accident
Correct answer: (A) Fallacy of Division
Explanation

The argument commits the fallacy of division.

It shifts from a property of the whole class to each individual member.

That pharmaceutical companies as a group are profitable is asserted of the average single company.

What holds collectively of the class need not hold of each part taken singly.

Reasoning from whole to part in this way is the fallacy of division.

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