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simple summary of the logic of fallacies. explain why fallacies became the most important part of logic. logic is concerned with the study of distinguishing bad arguments from the good ones, therefore it is mandatory for it to include identifying fallacies. logic is concerned with avoiding common mistakes in reasoning, this implies that it is necessary for it to consider fallacies and to avoid the common use of fallacies to persuade others and to be persuaded logic is helpful for evaluating arguments of others with the use of effective techniques, this techniques can be acquired by having a clear knowledge of common fallacies and their deceiving habits. logic is philosophical reasoning, reasoning that is said to be rational, therefore, it is necessary for it to have a way of constructing clear arguments without fallacious content. Fallacies are defects of arguments and logic is the use of primary principles to evaluate arguments and so the knowledge of fallacies in logic is helpful. since logic is aimed at developing methods and principles for evaluating arguments, then this shows that it is necessary to have a knowledge of fallacies to tackle them. constructing persuasive arguments using logic is a hard thing to accomplish without the knowledge of common mistakes/fallacies/ in reasoning. State the differences between formal and informal fallacies. formal fallacies are all fallacies of deductive arguments, whereas, informal ones are fallacies of both deductive and inductive arguments. formal fallacies are committed when the form of arguments are violated and informal fallacies are committed when the content of an argument is problematic. formal fallacies are found or identified by analyzing form of arguments and informal ones by analyzing the content of arguments. difference in formal and informal fallacy types can be seen clearly with an example(below) of both types with the statements that they give about the same issue. a. 	"No one has proved that there are living things in the planet mars, this leades us to the conclusion that, there are living things in the planet mars still discovered." b. 	"If there are no living things in mars, they would have been found. It is known that there are no living things found in mars, so this leads to the conclusion that there are no living things in mars." 5. formal fallacies use invalid deductive arguments, whereas informal ones aren't limited to this one only(may or may not use these only).