Answer: A. Explanation: An ad hominem is a type of fallacy where the person attacks the character, motive, etc of the other person.

A classic example of ad hominem fallacy is given below: A: “All murderers are criminals, but a thief isn’t a murderer, and so can’t be a criminal.” B: “Well, you’re a thief and a criminal, so there goes your argument.”

Ad hominem, Latin for “to the man”, is when an argument is rebutted by attacking the person making it rather than the argument itself. It is another informal logical fallacy. Person B attacks person A. Therefore, X is wrong.

An ad hominem argument is a personal attack against the source of an argument, rather than against the argument itself. Essentially, this means that ad hominem arguments are used to attack opposing views indirectly, by attacking the individuals or groups that support these views.

15 Common Logical Fallacies

• 1) The Straw Man Fallacy.
• 2) The Bandwagon Fallacy.
• 3) The Appeal to Authority Fallacy.
• 4) The False Dilemma Fallacy.
• 5) The Hasty Generalization Fallacy.
• 6) The Slothful Induction Fallacy.
• 7) The Correlation/Causation Fallacy.
• 8) The Anecdotal Evidence Fallacy.

Because in the first part of the story, you think that the narrator will successfully get Polly in that way, but then in the end, Polly decided to choose Petey Bellows over the narrator just because of the raccoon coat.

Max Shulman’s short story ‘Love is a Fallacy’ is the ironic story of a man who thinks he needs to educate his love interest so that she will be smart enough to marry him. To his dismay, she is the one who ends up educating him.

In a logical sense, it may be concluded that love is a fallacy. Not in the way that it is purely a fabrication but because of how the way it works. In the short story, the protagonist must understand that it takes more than knowledge, logic, or reason to create an emotional connection.

The theme of Love is an ironized Fallacy about what the main character teaches the girl he likes, which he uses for him. Max Shulman, a 20th-century American comedian writer. He is concerned about romantic relationships from the perspective of the child who is the main character of the story.

Terms in this set (8)

• dicto simpliciter. argument based on an unqualified generalization.
• hasty generalization. argument based on too few instances to draw a conclution.
• post hoc or false cause.
• contradictory premise.
• ad miseracordiam.
• false analogy.
• hypothisis contradictory to fact.
• poisoning the well.

2)How was Petey Bellows describe in the story? How about Polly? Do you think that they are really as dumb as they describe? -Petey Bellows was describe as dumb as an ox, emotional type, unstable, impressionable, and worst of all, a faddist. While Polly was describe as beautiful, gracious but not intelligent.

The theme of “Love is a Fallacy” irony about what the main character teaches the girl who he likes, she use for him. In this story he makes challenge with emotional feeling between logical fallacies. At the end of story, he prefers to teach the readers emotional feelings can win this competition because of human being.

Is the author successful in accomplishing his purpose? Why or why not? -Yes, the author accomplished his purpose through his story entitled “Love is a Fallacy”. Fallacy is sort of logic/logical.

Polly Espy -Just a girl friend (not a lover) of Petey – “a beautiful dumb girl” – Funny – Exquisite or delicate – Illogical – Curious Petey Bellows– Narrator’s roommate – Likes “Raccoon Coat” very much. Dobie knew that Polly Espy is friend of Petey but Dobie loves her very much and wants to marry her.

Love is a fallacy because it is an activity when you just love because you want to and not fulfill any obligation to love, because it promotes Contradictory Premises by confusing premises and contradicting them all in itself, and because it poisons the well. Humans are not on the earth to love.

“Love is a Fallacy” is an essay written by Max Shulman. The narrator is a smooth guy in the story and Polly Epsy is the female that he desires. In the story, he did many things in attempt to get with Polly.

The eight different fallacies, dicto simpliciter, hasty generalization, post hoc, contradictory premises, ad misericordiam, false analogy, hypothesis contrary to fact, and poisoning the well, are all neatly listed out throughout the story,… Polly too has her own logical reasons when turning the student down.

Narrator, one who tells a story. In a work of fiction the narrator determines the story’s point of view. If the narrator is a full participant in the story’s action, the narrative is said to be in the first person. A story told by a narrator who is not a character in the story is a third-person narrative.

I asked why do you want a raccoon coat Petey replied because all the Big Men wear it. Character replied it is dirty and people don’t wear it anymore. Petey just said I want a raccoon coat and he would anything to get it. So they made a deal that if Character brings a raccoon coat, he will have a date with Petey girl.