LOVE IS A FALLACY

PRESENTERS ARE . . . . . . .-Asmita Baniya-Aalok Thapa-Manoj Prasad Yadav-Santosh Dahal

Genre:- FictionStory about:- LogicWriter:-Max Schulman

Name:- Max Schulman Date of birth:- 14 th March,1919Place of birth:- St. Paul MinnesotaDate of death:-28 th August, 1988Place of Death:- Los Angeles, California (USA)(Died due to bone cancer)

A prolific writer of satirical humor, Max Schulman was the son of a Russian immigrant house painter.

Max Schulman began his writing career for the college humor magazine at the University of Minnesota. His work there came to the notice of a Doubleday editor, who encouraged the student to turn his best work into a novel, "Barefoot Boy With Cheek", which became a best-seller in 1943. After graduation, Schulman served in the US Army Air Corps, during that time he wrote two more novels, "The Feather Merchants", a comic novel about military life, and "The Zebra Derby", published after the war.

After returning to civilian life, Schulman became a full-time writer, turning out a large quantity of novels, short stories, stage and screenplays and television scripts over the next four decades.

He was nominated for Broadway's 1968 Tony Award for his book as part of a Best Musical nomination for "How Now, Dow Jones.“ In 1942 he was graduated from the University of Minnesota.

He served in US Army Air Corps in World War II.

Cont… A popular humorist,Shulman was best known for

The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis, a CBS television program he created from a volume of short stories of the same name. The television series, for which Schulman was also a writer, ran from 1959 to 1963 and starred Dwayne Hickman and Bob Denver, and was one of the first television shows to focus on the lives of teenagers.

Schulman's works include the novels Rally Round the Flag, Boys!, which was made into a film starring Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward; The Feather Merchants; The Zebra Derby; and Sleep till Noon. He was also a co-writer, with Robert Paul Smith, of the long-running Broadway play, The Tender Trap, starring Robert Preston and which was later adapted into a movie.

Cont… A later novel, Anyone Got a Match?, satirized both

the television and tobacco industries, as well as the South and college football. His last major project was House Calls, which began as a 1978 movie based on one of his stories, and starred Walter Matthau and Glenda Jackson; it spun-off the 1979-1981 television series of the same name, starring Wayne Rogers and Lynn Redgrave in the leads. Schulman was the head writer.

Also a screenwriter, Schulman was one of the collaborators on a non-fiction television program, Light's Diamond Jubilee, timed to the 75th anniversary of the invention of the light bulb.

-Taken from the Novel “The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis” by Max Schulman.-A Narrative and comical Story with Dobie Gillis as a Narrator.-Story is a piece of light, humorous satire.-Illustration of how fallacious reasoning can affect our everyday lives.-Fallacy can make anyone’s life painful.

Bad arguments are called fallacies.

A fallacy is an "argument" in which the premises given for the conclusion do not provide the needed degree of support.

An argument that fails to be conclusively deduced is invalid; it is said to be fallacious.

A fallacy is a false idea that many people believe is true.

So, fallacy is mistaken belief.

Dicto Simpliciter:An argument based on an unqualified

generalization.e.g. “Exercise is good. Therefore everybody

should exercise.”

Hasty Generalization:The scope of evidence is too small to support

the conclusion.e.g. “One or two NCM student disturbed the

class. Thus all NCM students are noisy. "

Post HocThis fallacy is committed when it is concluded

that one event causes another simply because the proposed cause occurred before the proposed effect.

e.g. “It rains when I don’t carry umbrella. Therefore rain s the cause of not taking umbrella.”

Contradictory PremisesConclusions are drawn from the interactions of

premises: where two premises contradict each other, there can be no interaction and hence no conclusion.

e.g. “If God can do anything, can he make a stone so heavy that he cannot lift it?”

Ad Misericordiam:It is a logical fallacy in which someone tries to

win support by their arguments by exploiting their opponent's feelings of pity .e.g. “I really need a part time job. Unless and

until I don’t get job I cannot fulfill my girlfriend's desires and how can I approach to marry her.”

False Analogy:It is the process of making connection between

two common things but there is no known connection between them.

e.g. “ Mr. A and Mr. B are good in study and they share everything about their study . But it doesn’t indicate that they have to share everything; like girlfriend, property etc…

Hypothesis Contrary to Fact: Extracting the conclusion from the fact that

what would happen if it was not correct.e.g. “ I married you. So, if I hadn’t married you,

you would have stayed without getting boy to marry.”

Poisoning the well:The fact or limitation of anything which is

presented in front of every body and then let them to do the assigned work.

e.g. “ Before you ask for help let me tell you that I have no money in the pocket.”

Dobie Gillis –The narrator - Characterized as “I” is of 18 years. - Doesn’t like “Raccoon Coat” very much. - Considers himself as cool, logical, keen, calculating, perspicacious, acute, astute, powerful, precise and penetrating.

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.

Narrator calls him: dumb, nothing upstairs, unstable, impressionable and a faddist.

The story “love is a fallacy” starts with the introduction part of the characters by Dobie Gillis.

One afternoon Dobie found Petey lying on his bed and mumbling the word “Raccoon.” Then he discovered that the problem is not physical, but mental. Petey told his desire about the raccoon coat and said that he can do anything for that coat.

Dobie knew that Polly Espy is friend of Petey but Dobie loves her very much and wants to marry her. So he wanted to know the relation between Petey and Polly. Petey told that they are only good friends. After knowing the fact Dobie made the agreement in between them exchanging Polly Espy with “Raccoon Coat” because he had the coat that her father owned one such coats in his undergraduate days. But he didn’t like to wear it.

After having dealing Dobie took Polly Espy on date because he wanted her to teach some logic before making her his girlfriend.

Dobie took Polly for dinner and then movie also. Having conversation , Dobie found that it is the difficult task to teach her.

Tells about the term “logic”.Discusses about four types of fallacies with examples. They are:

1.Dicto Simpliciter2.Hasty Generalization3.Post Hoc4. Contradictory Premises

Discusses about more fallacies with examples.They are:

1.Ad Misericordiam2.False Analogy3.Hypothesis Contrary to Fact

By reading the story we cannot exactly say whether love is fallacy or not because love cannot be deducted from given premises.

Love can be a fallacy if their is smell of material and physical satisfaction between two parties. But in case of emotional attachment love can never be fallacy.

If there is true and emotional attachment we don’t have to express our love. Unexpressed love or platonic love is true love which can never be fallacy. So; love itself is a love don’t try to make it fallacy.

But in name of love some are trying to make love as a fallacy. Boy makes girlfriend for material and physical satisfaction for short period of time.

In this regard; girls are also responsible to make love as a fallacy.They don’t want educated; talent; smart; helpful and caring husbands but want husbands who are rich and wealthy enough in order to fulfil their desires. They must think that if they love rich and wealthy man; that man may be liked by any other girls also. So it creates disturbances in their relation and makes love a fallacy.

Good; smart; educative; brilliant; helping and caring boys are like apples on the top of a tree. Girls don’t want to get those apples because they are afraid of falling. Instead they pick the apples which are on the ground. They are easy to pick but not so good enough. Apples on top think that there is something wrong because no girls are loving them. But in reality they are amazing. The apples on the ground think that even they are not good; girls are loving them. So they make the love as fallacy.

So girls choose the right person in order to avoid the fallacy in love.

- Story is presented in the dialogues form.

- Compare and contrast about characteristics of characters.

- Comical way of expression.

- Knowledgeable story.

- Satire to young generation.

-Max Schulman in his story, love is a fallacy uses the American colloquialism and slangs. (not used in formal languages)

e.g. nothing upstairs, dumb, casual kick, magnificent, call it a night, yummy, knock out, fire away etc.

-He uses similes and metaphors.e.g.“ dumb as an ox”, “my brain as powerful as a dynamo, as precise as a chemist’s scales, as pretending as a scalpel”, “my brain, that precision instrument, slipped into high gear", out of picture….the field would be open, he looked….bakery window, poisoning the well, it was like…tunnel”

-Use of antithesis(direct contact or similarities to something)

e.g. “desire waxing” balanced with “resolution waxing", dumb and smart” balanced with “ ugly, smart and beautiful.”

-Use of interjection (no grammatical connection to the sentence)

e.g. “wow-dow”, “yummy” etc.-Use of Idiomatic Phrase (Meaning cannot be deducted )

e.g. “That did it.” That refers to Polly’s answers and it refers to his loss of temper. THAT-IT