division - fallacy of

<logic, philosophy of science> the informal fallacy of attributing some feature of a collection to the members of that collection individually, or reasoning from whole to part. Example: "Today's newspaper has a lot of grocery ads, so each page of today's newspaper has a lot of grocery ads."

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