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标题：Debts, Oligarchies, and Holisms: Deconstructing the Fallacy of Composition
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作者：Maurice A. Finocchiaro
期刊名称：Informal Logic
印刷版ISSN：0824-2577
出版年度：2013
卷号：33
期号：2
页码：143-174
语种：English
出版社：Informal Logic
摘要：This is a critical appreciation of Govier’s 2006 ISSA keynote address on the fallacy of composition, and of economists’ writings on this fallacy in economics. I argue that the “fallacy of composition” is a problematical concept, because it does not denote a distinctive kind of argument but rather a plurality, and does not constitute a distinctive kind of error, but rather reduces to oversimplification in arguing from micro to macro. Finally, I propose further testing of this claim based on examples involving public vs. private debt in economics; oligarchic tendencies in politics, and the emergence of societal wholes in sociology.