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.

Answer: division

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.