Given below are two statements. In the light of the above statements, choose the most appropriate answer from the options given below.

Statement I:Formal fallacies are those that can be detected only through analysis of the content of the arguments.

Statement II:Formal fallacies pertain to deductive arguments that have identifiable forms.

ABoth Statement I and Statement II are correct

BBoth Statement I and Statement II are incorrect

CStatement I is correct but Statement II is incorrect

DStatement I is incorrect but Statement II is correct ✓ Correct

Correct answer: (D) Statement I is incorrect but Statement II is correct

Explanation

The claim that formal fallacies need content analysis is wrong, while the second claim is right.

A formal fallacy is detected purely by inspecting the structure or form of the argument, not its subject matter.

Content analysis is what informal fallacies require, not formal ones.

Formal fallacies do belong to deductive arguments whose forms can be laid out and checked.

So Statement 1 misstates how formal fallacies are found, whereas Statement 2 is accurate.

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