Directions. Name at the informal fallacy the passage below is committing. Also e

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Directions. Name at the informal fallacy the passage below is committing. Also explain why you believe the passage is fallacious. This passage may not be fallacious, and if you think this passage does not commit any fallacy, simply write “No fallacy.

the list of possible fallacys:

Appeal to Force, Appeal to Pity, Appeal to the People, Argument Against the Person, Accident, Appeal to Unqualified Authority, Appeal to Ignorance, Hasty Generalization, False Cause, Begging the Question, False Dichotomy, Equivocation, Deontic Fallacy, Composition, And Division.

Passage:

Each person's happiness is a good to that person. Therefore, the general happiness is good to the aggregate of all persons. ---John Stuart Mill

Explanation / Answer

This passage, the statement of John Stuart Mill, is ccommitting the fallacy of Composition.

It is not necessary that, happiness that is good for an individual necessarily bring happiness and goodness for all members of the society. Thus,this passage is committing fallacy of composition.

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