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Kostas Oikonomou

Fallacy of division erratum

In the exception part of Fallacy of Division, just above the "tip" it says:

Exception: When a part of the whole has a property that, by definition, causes the part to take on that property.

I think it should be:

Exception: When a part of the whole has a property that, by definition, causes the part of the whole to take on that property.

 

asked on Thursday, Jun 29, 2023 10:36:56 AM by Kostas Oikonomou

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TrappedPrior (RotE) writes:

I doubled-checked and I think you're right. Division is not a fallacy when there is transference - that is, the properties of the whole are necessarily distributed to the parts.

posted on Thursday, Jun 29, 2023 11:01:48 AM
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Darren writes:
[To TrappedPrior (RotE)]

Please clarify this comment; I don’t think it’s correct as stated

[ login to reply ] posted on Thursday, Jun 29, 2023 06:39:07 PM
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TrappedPrior (RotE) writes:
[To Darren]

I am saying that division is not a fallacy when the whole exists such that it necessarily transfers its properties to its constituent parts.

 

[ login to reply ] posted on Saturday, Jul 01, 2023 04:29:35 PM

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