• fallaciousBasis@lemmy.world
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    9 hours ago

    That’s called composition. A formal logical fallacy. Supersets are not homogenous. Applying what’s true about a subset to the superset is possibly correct but often isn’t.

    For instance, all dogs are collies is demonstrably wrong. But all collies are dogs is true.