(Last Word) the Fallacy of Composition States That

question 111

Multiple Choice

(Last Word) The fallacy of composition states that

• A) because economic systems are composed of so many diverse economic units, economic laws are necessarily inexact.
• B) the anticipation of a particular event can affect the composition of that event when it occurs.
• C) what is true for the individual must necessarily be true for the group.
• D) because event A precedes event B, A is necessarily the cause of B.

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Definitions:

Resource Partitioning

The process by which competing species use the environment differently in a way that helps them to coexist.

Competitive Exclusion

A principle in ecology that states two species competing for the same limited resource cannot coexist at constant population values, one will always outcompete the other.

Competition

The interaction between organisms or species, where the fitness of one is lowered by the presence of another.

Commensalism

A type of symbiotic relationship where one organism benefits from the association while the other is neither benefited nor harmed.