Your marriage ended in divorce, therefore the relationship was a failure. Is this fallacious reasoning? If so what is the fallacy?
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1It appears that the person who wrote/said this, is not differentiating between "marriage" and a "relationship," which is fallacious. "Marriage" is a subset of "relationship" whereas all marriages are relationships but not all relationships are marriages. This would be like saying
Dogs bark too much, therefore animals are annoying.
While I can think of no named fallacy for this, it certainly is fallacious reasoning. If they had said
Your marriage ended in divorce, therefore the marriage was a failure.
They would have avoided the fallacy, but one could certainly disagree with them in principle.
Ryan Hardy pointed out that this might fit under Fallacy of Composition . I agree.
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