Paper 1 · Logical Reasoning
UGC NET December 2023 (19.12.2023) Shift-II
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 — The reasoning commits the fallacy of division, so the answer is fallacy of division.
Explanation
★The reasoning commits the fallacy of division, so the answer is fallacy of division.
★Fallacy of division assumes what is true of a whole must be true of each part.
★Here the profitability of the whole industry is wrongly transferred to each single company.
★Its mirror image, the fallacy of composition, argues from parts to whole.
★Hasty generalisation draws a broad conclusion from too few cases.
★Slippery slope claims one step must lead to an extreme chain of results.
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