[general_re]

Previous installments:

Part 1 - Introduction and the Argument From Ignorance
Part 2 - the Appeal to Inappropriate Authority
Part 3 - the Argument Ad Hominem
Part 4 - the Appeal to Force and the Appeal to Emotion
Part 5 - the Irrelevant Conclusion
Part 6 - Fallacies of Presumption and the Complex Question
Part 7 - False Cause and Begging the Question
Part 8 - Accident and Converse Accident
Part 9 - Fallacies of Ambiguity and Equivocation
Part 10 - Amphiboly and Accent

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[general_re]

Part 11. Apologies all round for the long delay, but my employer suddenly got hyperactive about this "work" thing. Sorry.

In any case, as a way of mea culpa-ing, I will post a special bonus Part 12 later today, which will consist of examples of fallacious arguments - identifying and understanding the fallacies presented will make an excellent test of the material presented in this series. And no, this is not for a grade, purely for self-improvement purposes ;)

[PatrickHenry]

A particularly flagrant example [of the "fallacy of composition"] would be to argue that, since every part of a certain machine is light in weight, the machine "as a whole" is light in weight.

Because the parts of a living cell are lifeless atoms, the cell itself must be lifeless.

[LiteKeeper]

read later

[risk]

I find these very useful. Of course it makes it harder to post comments when one reviews ones statements against these standards, but so be it!

[VadeRetro]

The second type of division fallacy is committed when one argues from the attributes of a collection of elements to the attributes of the elements themselves.

Strictly speaking, fallacies of decomposition.