Sugar is sweet. Therefore, its chemical components, carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen, are sweet.
A) Missing the point.
B) False cause.
C) Division.
D) No fallacy.
E) Composition.

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The fallacy of division is assuming that what is true of the whole must also be true of its parts. In this case, assuming the chemical components of sugar must be sweet because sugar is sweet is an example of this fallacy.

Sugar Is Sweet