Volume 6 · The Unfinished Syllabus · Essay 287

Two Wrongs Fallacy

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

The fallacy survives because it is comfortable. It lets you keep your conclusion and skip the work. The cure is unfashionable: slow down, ask what the evidence actually shows, and let the conclusion follow.

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. Do not memorise it. Notice it. Noticing is the senior discipline.