Fellow Toastmasters, if I say the letter “L”, which word comes to your mind first? [ The audience said a range of words - Love, Life, Laughter... ] I am a little disappointed that no one said "Logic" . Its always this overrated 'love', 'luck' etc. But you know, logic has single-handedly transformed the entire humanity from being clueless neanderthals to a species that conquered this planet and many more planets to come. The purpose of my speech today is to resurrect the role of logic in everyday life. The monumental importance of standing logically-correct amidst the cacophony of illogical chatter and 'fallacies'! We will try to understand some common fallacies, so that we can appear smart and also win some arguments :) Early greek philosophers used ‘Argument’ or ‘Dialectics’ as the chief tool to reason out everything. They did not have the elaborate scientific methods of the modern times. There were no formalism techniques to