LOVE IS A FALLACY

PRESENTERS ARE . . . . . . .
-Asmita Baniya
-Aalok Thapa
-Manoj Prasad Yadav
-Santosh Dahal
Genre:- Fiction
Story about:- Logic
Writer:-Max Schulman
Name:- Max Schulman
Date of birth:- 14 th March,1919
Place of birth:- St. Paul
Minnesota
Date of death:-28 th August, 1988
Place 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 Hoc
This 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 Premises
Conclusions 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 Simpliciter
2.Hasty Generalization
3.Post Hoc
4. Contradictory Premises
Discusses about more fallacies with examples.
They are:

1.Ad Misericordiam
2.False Analogy
3.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