Motte and Bailey Fallacy

Motte and Bailey Fallacy is the argument equivalent of a cracked bangle — it shines, it jingles, and it will cut you.

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. Carry it lightly. Ideas, like umbrellas, are useful only when actually opened.