Good Morning Dave,
I am stuck on question 18 on 434. When I read this question, I instantly noticed the Whole to Part Flaw. however, the question also puts forward a false choice.
Both of these flaws are listed in the answer choices.
Whole to Part (C)
False Choice (E)
How would I go about selecting the right flaw type in the answer choices.
Thanks in advance!
Mike.
Hi, Mike,
I like seeing this argument as exhibiting some False Choice tendencies; "Here's one way of thinking about Nature, so it's how we must think about nature." That seems a bit like what (E) is driving at. I also thought of it as showing us a bit of an Analogy Error; since nature exhibits these tendencies, we've assumed that our thinking about nature must also exhibit analogous tendencies.
However, I don't see a Part/Whole error here. That flaw is what happens when we assume that because something is true of a whole, that it must therefore be true of every part of that whole (or vice versa). Here, we haven't made any claim about the parts of a thing based on evidence about the whole thing, so we haven' t committed the error described by (C).
Does that make sense?
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