"fallacy of composition" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1996 March 29, Noël Carroll, Theorizing the Moving Image, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →OL, page 229",
          "text": "A theorist who moves from the putative fact that every shot in a given nonfiction film represents a personal point-of-view to the conclusion that every nonfiction film is a personal vision commits the fallacy of composition.",
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          "ref": "2012, “Conclusion: Psychology, Neuroscience, and Economics”, in David K. Levine, editor, Is Behavioral Economics Doomed?: The Ordinary versus the Extraordinary, Cambridge: Open Book Publishers, →OL, page 127",
          "text": "There is a small segment of the psychology literature that effectively commits a fallacy of composition, reasoning that if we can explain individual behavior, then this carries over immediately to the group.",
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          "ref": "2013 August 5, Richard E. Creel, Philosophy of Religion: The Basics, Wiley Blackwell",
          "text": "The cosmological argument, according to Edwards, commits the fallacy of composition because it assumes that because each part of the universe is caused that therefore the universe as a whole must have a cause, but that doesn't take into account the possibility of an infinite regress of events.",
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