Fallacies of illicit transference
A fallacy of illicit transference is an informal fallacy occurring when an argument assumes there is no difference between a term in the distributive and collective sense.
There are two variations of this fallacy:
- Fallacy of composition – assumes what is true of the parts is true of the whole. This fallacy is also known as "arguing from the specific to the general."
- Fallacy of division – assumes what is true of the whole is true of its parts. In statistics, forms of it are usually referred to as the ecological fallacy.