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Posted on 05/13/2008 10:54:38 AM PDT by svcw

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To: Nachoman

Logic fallacy: Composition.

The informal fallacy of attributing some feature of the members of a collection to the collection itself, or reasoning from part to whole.

I did not commit this logic fallacy. Did you?

True statement: Some people on disability are simply gaming the system.
False conclusion through the logic fallacy of composition: All people on disability are gaming the system.


41 posted on 05/13/2008 1:10:27 PM PDT by MrB (You can't reason people out of a position that they didn't use reason to get into in the first place)
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OMG! Are we running out of thread space?? lol j/k :~)I'm just kidding!!
42 posted on 05/13/2008 6:18:02 PM PDT by My hearts in London - Everett (I'd rather be single than wish I was.)
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