Fallacies — Its kinds — Fallacies

Every year, a chunk of the University of Mumbai's Logic paper is a short paragraph followed by one instruction: identify the fallacy and give reasons. That question format alone is worth building a topic around, so before you meet each named fallacy in turn, get this general layer right — what a fallacy actually is, why some are called “formal” and some are not, and how examiners expect the answer to be built.

In two minutes

A fallacy is a defect in an argument that makes it look like good reasoning when it is not — formal fallacies break a rule of logical structure, and informal (non-formal) fallacies go wrong in content, language, or relevance instead.

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