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Fallacy
A part of the argument that is flawed and so makes the entire argument invalid. There are various types of fallacies. A formal fallacy is a deductive argument that has an invalid form. An informal fallacy is a mode of reasoning whose flaw is not in the form of an argument.
10.4135/9781412972024.n991
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