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Informal Fallacies Often, especially in casual conversation a person will hear an informal fallacy. One might ask themselves what is an informal fallacy and why is it necessary to know what one is? Dictionary.com states that a fallacy is, 1. A false notion. 2. A statement or an argument based on a false or invalid inference. 3. Incorrectness of reasoning or belief; erroneousness. 4. The quality of being deceptive. A Fallacy is a kind of argument which tends to persuade us, even though it is a bad argument, either because of the form, or because of the falsity of one of the premises. Ordinary people in a casual conversation will state a fallacy to prove their point. Many times those fallacies are informal. When we talk of committing a fallacy, it is usually the person offering the flawed argument who is at fault, as well as the person who accepts the argument as being well reasoned! In a case where the person offering the argument is doing so to prevent harm, and realizes that the argument is fallacious, then they are only committing a fallacy if they believe what they have argued is reasonable. Some fallacies will depend on sleight of hand (deception), while others rely on emotional appeals. Most fal