Update Informal Logic and Fallacies authored by Lem's avatar Lem
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_Sodium and chlorine are both deadly poisons. Salt is made up of sodium and chlorine. Therefore salt is a deadly poison._
26. **Division** -- the opposite of composition, where a statement about the whole is taken to be the same for the parts.
_The Nixon administration was composed of a bunch of crooks. Therefore Henry, Nixon's White House chef, was a crook._
_The Federation of American Scientists is prestigious and wise. Therefore John, who is a member, is prestigious and wise._
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