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fal·la·cy
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fallacy of composition
the fallacy of inferring that a property of parts or members of a whole is also a property of the whole (opposed to fallacy of division). -
fallacy of division
the fallacy of inferring that a property of the whole is also a property of parts or members of the whole (opposed to fallacy of composition). -
fallacious
containing a fallacy; logically unsound: fallacious arguments. -
genetic fallacy
the fallacy of confusing questions of validity and logical order with questions of origin and temporal order. -
intentional fallacy
(in literary criticism) an assertion that the intended meaning of the author is not the only or most important meaning; a fallacy involving an assessment of a literary work based on the author's intended meaning rather than on actual response to the work. -
affective fallacy
a proposition in literary criticism that a poem should be analyzed and described in terms of its own internal structure and not in terms of the emotional response it arouses in the reader.