| Category Errors |
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| These fallacies occur because the author mistakenly assumes that the whole is nothing more than the sum of its parts. However, things joined together may have different properties as a whole than any of them do separately. |
| The following fallacies are category errors: |
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[Composition] (Because the parts have a property, the whole is said to have that property)
[Division] (Because the whole has a property, the parts are said to have that property) |