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    Supports→A single answer to a double question yields two premises, one of which may be idle, thus invalidating the deduction as a non-cause fallacy.

    A proposition is a single predication about a single subject.

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    Aristotle’s fallacy of many questions occurs when two questions are asked as if they are one proposition. A proposition is “a single predication about a single subject” (SR 6 169a8). Thus with a single answer to two questions one has two premises for a refutation , and one of them may turn out to be idle, thus invalidating the deduction (it becomes a non-cause fallacy). Also possible is that extra-linguistic part-whole mistakes may happen when, for example, given that something is partly good an

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