Define the term fallacy.

Short Answer:Fallacy is a mistake in reasoning.

Long Answer:

Fallacy is a mistake in reasoning. The evidence presented in reasoning does not make the
conclusion true or more likely to be true. Each fallacy is a type of incorrect argument. E.g.: I hear the
rain falling outside my window; therefore, the sun is not shining. Here what we must realize is that it can
rain even when the sun is shining. Therefore in this fallacy one action is not a cause of another. So it is a
wrong way of reasoning out an argument. This is a fallacy of false cause, a fallacy in which a causal
connection between two events is claimed to exist when it is actually not there.
A fallacy is an error in reasoning.
There are many ways in which reasoning can go wrong. There are many kinds of mistakes in
argument. A logical fallacy is an argument that is psychologically persuasive but logically weak. Some
arguments are so obviously incorrect as to deceive and persuade no one.