(July 16, 2013 at 1:43 am)Consilius Wrote: This would be a fallacy of composition if cause an effect was relevant to a single aspect of the universe. The problem here is that cause and effect is relevant to ALL aspects of the universe, which are ALL that the universe is.
Here's a practical example. I build a machine from entirely iron parts. The functioning machine will be entirely iron and, therefore, iron itself.
This just shows your ignorance of the fallacy.
The fallacy of composition arises when one infers that something is true of the whole from the fact that it is true of some part of the whole (or even of every proper part). For example: "This fragment of metal cannot be fractured with a hammer, therefore the machine of which is built entirely of such fragments cannot be fractured with a hammer."
Hence, once again, you are wrong.