When the famous art collector Vidmar died, a public auction of her collection, the largest privately owned, was held. ██ █████ ████████ ██████ ███ ██ █████ █████ ███████ ████ ██ █████ ███ ████ ████████ ███████████ ████ █████████ ██ █ ██████ ████████ ████████ ███ █████ ████████
MacNeil hears that Vidmar's collection is among the most valuable ever assembled and concludes that she can't afford any individual work in it. The reasoning: the collection as a whole is extremely valuable, so every single piece in it must also be extremely valuable.
This is a whole-to-part flaw. A property of the whole (being extremely valuable) is attributed to each individual part (each artwork). But a collection can be worth a fortune without every piece in it being expensive.
Maybe two famous paintings account for nearly all the value and the rest are inexpensive. The total price tag on the collection tells us nothing definitive about what any individual piece costs. MacNeil has no basis for concluding she can't afford any of the works.
For Parallel Flaw questions, we need an answer that commits the same error in the same direction. Specifically:
Watch out for answers that are flawed but go from part-to-whole instead of whole-to-part.
Analysis by Kevin_Lin
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