Category Errors

(thing) by anomie Tue May 23 2000 at 18:40:54
A class of logical fallacies in which the whole is considered to be nothing more than the sum of its parts. This isn't always true; some systems have emergent properties, and some properties combine additively while others combine existentially.

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