Many forms of seafood (lobster, crab legs etc.)are consumed by dipping the meat in melted garlic butter. If someone suggested that it would therefore be equally appealing to drink melted butter after having eaten garlic and unseasoned seafood, you would know they had fallen victim to which of the following?

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The suggestion that drinking melted butter after eating garlic and unseasoned seafood would be equally appealing as dipping seafood in melted butter is an example of the fallacy of composition, which assumes that what is true for one part is true for the whole. While dipping seafood in melted butter may be appealing, it does not necessarily mean that drinking melted butter after eating garlic and unseasoned seafood would be similarly appealing.

Many Forms of Seafood (Lobster, Crab Legs Etc