Volume 6 · The Unfinished Syllabus · Essay 18

Appeal to Majority Fallacy

Bad reasoning rarely announces itself. Appeal to Majority Fallacy walks in dressed as good sense and leaves with your wallet.

Once you can name this fallacy, you will hear it everywhere — in advertisements, in debates, in your own head at 2 a.m. Do not despair. Hearing it is the beginning of escaping it.

The old NCERT textbook, boring cover and all, has outlived a hundred motivational posters. Clarity is the only pedagogy that never goes out of fashion.

Learning is the one wealth that survives every partition of fortune. Keep it like a good key: accessible, unlabelled, and used often.