Fallacies are dangerous because they are false conclusions or interpretations resulting from thinking processes that claim or appear to be valid, but fail to conform to the requirements of logic.8 A fallacy can, therefore, be defined as “any argument that seems conclusive to the normal mind but that proves, upon examination, not to establish the alleged conclusion,”9 or more succinctly, a form of argument that seems to be correct but that proves upon examination not to be so.

Ruggero J. Aldisert, Agatha D. Aldisert, Logic for Lawyers- A Guide …, loc. 776