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Instructions: Identify the fallacy of ambiguity that appears in the following passage.

a.The New York Philharmonic plays classical music in a lyrical and harmonious manner. Therefore, its percussionists play classical music in a lyrical and harmonious manner.

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Answer: division

Step-by-step explanation:

A fallacy of division occurs when a logical reason takes place that something true for the whole must also be true of all or some of its parts.

That is , something that applies for the whole applies to the part also .

In the question above

The New York Philharmonic plays classical music in a lyrical and harmonious manner=

Logical reasoning for the whole .In the part b ,we can see it is now being applied to the part Therefore , its percussionists play classical music in a lyrical and harmonious manner.

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