Fallacies in Reasoning

This book is a very brief introduction to informal fallacies that can occur in our reasoning both in ordinary life and in scholarly work. It is important for us as thinking beings to be alerted to these pitfalls of reasoning. While there is no dearth of introductory texts that discuss fallacies, separate and simple treatments of fallacies are few and far between. This little booklet has been written with a view to making a very simple and stand-alone presentation of important informal fallacies. The idea is to provide beginning readers with an easily accessible introduction, which they can read completely in one or two sittings without having to purchase or find a whole book of Logic or Critical Thinking. The hope is that the readers of these pages will end up trying to avoid these fallacies more assiduously in their life and work.