The Four Silver Bullets (I)Christians commit this fallacy when they transpose properties of material entities (parts) to the universe (whole). The example of causality I used before can be applied here as well. Causality is a relational property, because it involves more than one entity , usually one imparting a cause to another). So we cannot say that, for instance, "every material entity has a cause" implies that "the universe has a cause". Apart from the scientific fact that quantum events do not have causes, thus disproving the first assertion, we can also say that causality cannot be transposed to the whole.
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