Wrong-Side-of-Maybe Fallacy

A fallacy is a shortcut with a pothole in it. Wrong-Side-of-Maybe Fallacy is one of the busier potholes on the road of reasoning.

The error is seductive because it imitates a virtue. It sounds like loyalty, or confidence, or common sense. But follow it home and you find it lives in a house with no foundation.

Think of the tuition teacher who says, 'First learn the formula, then forget where it came from — and then, one day, remember it properly.' That three-step journey is how all real learning travels.

Learning is the one wealth that survives every partition of fortune. One page cannot change a life. But one recognised pattern can change a Tuesday, and lives are made of Tuesdays.