What are Fallacies and Logic? How about Dicto Simpliciter, False Analogy, Post Hoc, Hasty Generalization, Contradictory Premises, Ad Misericordiam, Hypothesis Contrary to Fact, and Poisoning the Well? What are these words all about?
Fallacies are actually false notions or statements or arguments based on a false or invalid inference. I may also be incorrectness of reasoning or belief; erroneousness, or the quality of being deceptive. While Logic on the other hand is defined as the the study of the principles of reasoning, especially of the structure of propositions as distinguished from their content and of method and validity in deductive reasoning or a system or a mode of reasoning as well. These words are somewhat familiar to me but I don't actually know much about these words. And the other words like the Dicto Simpliciter are the fallacies of logic.
I seemed like I know these words so much, but actually these are just "alien" words in my "vocabulary". I was able to meet all these stuffs when I read the story written by Max Schulman which is entitled "Love Is A Fallacy". The title was kind of captivating which somehow encourage me to really read the story. But the title of the story has been an issue to me and has really bothered me for sometime. I can't really think of any reason why the author entitled the story such. But anyways the story was magnificent. Really far from what I expected. Honestly, at the very first time I attempted to read the story I felt like I don't want to read it, but of course for some reasons. One of which is because I find it long and to think I was just renting in the internet cafe. Another is that I felt that the story will just bored me. But, unfortunately I was wrong and again made to realize that I must not judge things right away. It turned out that I find the story to be so nice and funny. The story was humurous because there the main character in the story liked this girl and did everything just to let the girl fall for him yet at the end, the girl turned out to like the friend of the main character just because of a raccoon coat. I thought that there was a deeper reason behind her decision. But just of a raccoon coat?! I'm really wondering why, when the main character then has almost everything. He has the intelligence and aside from that he is good looking. Wasn't he? Yet the girl still chose to be with the guy's friend just because of a coat when this guy she chose to commit herself, was a dumb. I felt sorry for the girl for she doesn't know to really think who she'll give her love to and was just carried by being popular or the popularity of the guy.
The story shows that most people nowadays would always do everything just to be accepted or like fit in a group. And that we easily envy things even though he or she don't have that much or is not capable of having it. And that we have also been carried easily by a person's popularity.
The story has somehow taught me some things for me to always put in mind. And one of which is that I should not get jealous to things right away and do everything taht I could do so that I could have it though it isn't so important.
But nevertheless, I liked the whole story. And I'm still looking forward on how I could solve my question regarding the title of the story.
Thursday, March 22, 2007
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