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A fallacy of illicit transference is an informal fallacy occurring when an argument assumes there is no difference between a term in the distributive (referring to every member of a class) and collective (referring to the class itself as a whole) sense.[1]
There are two variations of this fallacy:[1]
While fallacious, arguments that make these assumptions may be persuasive because of the representativeness heuristic.