LOVE IS A FALLACY.pptx English for Academic

love is a fallacy

1. One afternoon, Petey was lying on his bed with an expression of such distress on his face. And then a young man at age eighteen who was very smart, acute, and astute passed by him. He described his powerful brain as a dynamo. He is studying at a law school as the same with Petey.The man diagnosed Petey and found that he was suffering from appendicitis. What really bothered him was a raccoon coat.It was found later that his sickness was mental and not physical.

2. He said, he was like a fool for his money was spent for books and nothing is left for a raccoon coat.Big men on the campus are wearing it, " said Petey . I was not aware of the style because I was in the library. Petey was willing to give up anything in exchange for a raccoon coat.But there is one thing that Petey has, he is the first one to take for a date, Polly Espy. She is the most elegant and the most gorgeous girl he have so far seen. The way she eats and walks has the word elite on it. She was all he ever wanted, and all an intellectual guy like him would ever need.

3. The man is going to his house for the weekend and promise to bring something for his roommnate . After the man has come back, he brought with him a raccoon coat that what Petey really loves. Petey was very excited about the coat but the man told Petey to give him something in exchange of it. The man ask for the girl, Polly Espy. At first Petey did not want the deal but he thinks that he was just the one in the school who do not have a raccoon coat. at the end he gave Polly to the man.

4. The man took Polly the night after the deal. They went to eat and to watch a movie.After the man go to drop Polly. The man notice that Polly was not that intelligent for him so he had an idea the next night. They went under an oak tree and discuss the different fallacies.

5. The man taught her the fallacies of Dicto Simpliciter, Hasty Generalization,Post Hoc, Contradictory Premises, Ad Misericordiam , Hypothesis Contrary to Fact.There was the time when he taught her about the only fallacy she correctly analyzed, the Poisoning the Well. She perfectly responded to the problem he gave her this time. That time, he was already filled with hope again. After the fifth night, He have made the perfect girl. Then, he tried on putting their dates from intellectual to romantic.

6. When the man finally had the courage to tell Polly his feelings,he was shocked to the way Polly replied to his words. Polly answered in a way that she make use of the fallacies. The man told her that she doesn't have to apply the fallacies all the time in because these fallacies are only taught inside the a four-walled room but Polly still continued to reply him on those fallacies . 

7. Then he asked her directly if she'd accept his love. But he was surprised when she refused, and the reason is because she promised Petey she'll be his that afternoon. He asked her why she chose Petey than him. Polly answered that she chose Petey beecause he has a raccoon coat.

8. Fallacies in the story Dicto Simpliciter – Exercise is good, therefore everybody should exercise. - You should not take this all seriously. This are all school stuffs, you know that the things you learn in school don’t have anything to do with life.

9. Hasty Generalization – You can’t speak French. Petey Burch can’t speak French. I must, therefore conclude that nobody at the University of Minnesota can speak French . - We have now spent five evenings together. We have gotten along splendidly. It’s clear that we are well-matched.

10. Post Hoc - Let’s not take Bill on our picnic. Every time we take it out with us, it rains .

11. Contradictory Premises - If God can do anything, can He make a stone so heavy that He won’t be able to lift it?

12. Ad Misericordiam – A man applies for a job, when a boss asks him what his qualifications are, he said he has a wife and 6 children at home, the wife is a helpless cripple, the children have nothing to eat no clothes to wear, no slippers and the winter is coming . - I love you. You are the whole world to me, and the moon, and the stars, and the constellations of the outer space. Please be with me, for if you will not, life will be meaningless. I will languish. I will refuse my meals. I will wander the face of the Earth, a shambling, hollow – eyed hulk.

13. False Analogy - Student’s should be allowed to watch their textbooks during examinations. After all, surgeons have X-rays to guide them during a trial, carpenters have blue prints to guide them when they are building a house. Why, then, shouldn’t students be allowed to look at their textbooks during examination ? - You don’t have to eat a whole cake to know that it’s good.

14. Hypothesis Contrary to Fact - I Madame Curie had not happened to leave a photographic plate in a drawer with a chunk of pitchblende, the world today would not know about radium . - You do owe me something, don’t you, my dear? If I hadn’t come along you never would have learned about fallacies.

15. Poisoning the Well – Two men are having a debate. The first one get up and says, ‘My opponent is a notorious liar. You can’t believe a word that he is going to say . - You can’t go with Him, He’s a liar. He’s a cheater. He’s a rat.