Fallacy of division erratum
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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.
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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.