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Love is a Fallacy: Basic Principles of Fallacies
Introduction
Max Shulman was a 20th century American writer and humorist best known for his television and short story character Dobie Gillis, as well as for best-selling novels.
At the start of the story, Shulman combines humor, self-mockery, and formal logic in a way that illustrates and clarifies the basic propositions of logic, while at the same time producing an alluring story.
The narrator of the story was Dobbie Gillis, a conceited, intelligent, and young man seeking for the woman who would befit his personality when he becomes a lawyer. Petey was Dobbie’s illogical roommate whose girlfriend infatuated Dobbie. Thinking of the scenario, Dobbie wanted to steal Petey’s girlfriend. Petey, being a faddist was found by Dobbie, one afternoon seeking a racoon coat. Dobbie offered to give his racoon coat to Petey to gain dates with Polly, Petey’s girlfriend. The dilemma was that, Polly was too, an illogical person. But then, Dobbie is confident that through his wit, he can change Polly from dumb to an intelligent girl. In their five so-called dates that appeared to be tutorial sessions, Dobbie succeeded to make a logician out of Polly. Unfortunately, Polly still chose Petey to be his boyfriend because he has a racoon coat.
In the progress of the story, Dobbie taught Polly fallacies but then after five dates, when Dobbie wanted to finally ask Polly to be his girlfriend, Polly refused. Polly used her learned fallacies to defend why she doesn’t want Dobbie to be his boyfriend.
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