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    The narrator takes his friend Petey's girlfriend Polly on multiple dates to teach her about logical fallacies and reasoning. However, Polly learns the lessons too well and is able to use them to deflect the narrator's attempts to get her to agree to be his steady girlfriend. In the end, Polly chooses to date Petey instead of the narrator, demonstrating how learning logic can backfire in matters of the heart.

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    The narrator takes his friend Petey's girlfriend Polly on multiple dates to teach her about logical fallacies and reasoning. However, Polly learns the lessons too well and is able to use them to deflect the narrator's attempts to get her to agree to be his steady girlfriend. In the end, Polly chooses to date Petey instead of the narrator, demonstrating how learning logic can backfire in matters of the heart.

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    The narrator takes his friend Petey's girlfriend Polly on multiple dates to teach her about logical fallacies and reasoning. However, Polly learns the lessons too well and is able to use them to deflect the narrator's attempts to get her to agree to be his steady girlfriend. In the end, Polly chooses to date Petey instead of the narrator, demonstrating how learning logic can backfire in matters of the heart.

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    Which of the following attracts you?

    Intelligence Fashion Sense

    Face and Body Personality


    Which of the following makes you fall in love with a
    person?

    Intelligence Fashion Sense

    Face and Body Personality


    By Max Schulman
    Vocabulary Words
    Logic reasoning conducted or assessed
    according to strict principles of validity.

    a failure in reasoning that renders an


    Fallacy argument invalid.

    Dynamo a generator.
    Vocabulary Words
    Perspicacious having a ready insight into and
    understanding of things.

    Faddist a person following a fad


    or given to fads
    AUTHOR
    MAX SCHULMAN
    • American writer of satirical
    humor
    • Former soldier
    • Screen writer
    ABOUT THE STORY
    • Taken from the Novel “The
    Many Loves of Dobie Gillis”
    • A Narrative and comical Story
    with Dobie Gillis as a
    Narrator.
    • Story is a piece of light,
    humorous satire
    FALLACY
    • 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.
    • A fallacy is a false idea that
    many people believe is true. So,
    fallacy is mistaken belief
    LOGIC

    Science of reasoning, science


    of thought, reasonable
    thinking
    CHARACTERS
    Describe the following:
    Narrator (Dobie Gillis)
    -- 18 years old
    -- cool, logical, keen,
    calculating, perspicacious,
    acute, astute, powerful, precise,
    penetrating
    -- not a faddist
    CHARACTERS
    Describe the following:
     Polly Espy
    -- “a beautiful dumb girl”
    -- funny, exquisite or
    delicate, illogical,
    curious
    -- just a girl friend (not a
    lover ) of Petey
    CHARACTERS
    Describe the following:
     Petey Bellows/Burch
    -- narrator’s roommate
    -- a faddist
    -- dumb, nothing “upstairs”,
    unstable, impressionable
    Date a
    celebrity Date your
    of your crush
    choice
    Get married Get married
    with someone with someone
    who loves you, you love, but
    but you don’t doesn’t loves
    love you
    Dump Be the
    person
    someone getting
    else dumped
    By Max Shulman
    PROBLEM
    The story…
    The story…
    How did Petey and the narrator solve the
    problem?
    What was the narrator’s plan for Polly?
    The story…
    1 ST DATE

    Dobie took Polly to dinner and movie.


    During the conversation, Dobie realized
    that it is difficult to teach her.
    2ND DATE
    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
    Fallacies of Logic

    1. Dicto Simpliciter
    • an argument based on an unqualified
    generalization
    • “Exercise is good. Therefore everybody should
    exercise.”
    • “Everyone wants to get married someday.”
    Fallacies of Logic
    2. Hasty Generalization
    • There are too few instances to support
    such a conclusion
    • “You can't speak French. Petey Bellows
    can't speak French. I must therefore
    conclude that nobody at the University
    of Minnesota can speak French.”
    Fallacies of Logic
    2. Hasty Generalization
    • “One or two Marian student disturbed the class.
    Thus all Marian students are noisy.”
    Fallacies of Logic

    3. Post Hoc
    • Concluding and blaming that one
    event/person/thing cause the proposed effect.
    • “Let's not take Bill on our picnic. Every time we
    take him out with us, it rains.”
    Fallacies of Logic

    3. Post Hoc
    • “John had a heart attack while he was saying a
    prayer. Therefore, the prayer caused the heart
    attack.”
    Fallacies of Logic

    4. Contradictory Premises
    • When the premises of an argument contradict
    each other, there can be no argument.
    Fallacies of Logic

    4. Contradictory Premises
    • “If God can do anything, can He make a stone so
    heavy that He won’t be able to lift it?"
    3RD DATE

    Discusses about more fallacies with


    examples. They are:
    1.Ad Misericordiam
    2.False Analogy
    3.Hypothesis Contrary to Fact
    4.Poisoning the Well
    Fallacies of Logic

    5. Ad Misericordiam
    • When someone tries to win support
    by exploiting their pity.
    • Boss: “What are your qualifications?”
    Applicant: “Sir, please accept me. My wife
    is at the hospital. My children have nothing
    to eat. I need this job.”
    Fallacies of Logic
    5. Ad Misericordiam
    Fallacies of Logic

    6. False Analogy
    • Making connection between two common things
    but there is no common connection between
    them.
    Fallacies of Logic

    6. False Analogy
    • "No one objects to a physician looking up a difficult case in
    medical books. Why, then, shouldn't students taking a difficult
    examination be permitted to use their textbooks?"
    Fallacies of Logic

    7. Hypothesis Contrary to Fact


    •Extracting conclusion from fact if it didn’t
    happen.
    •“If Madame Curie did not discover radium,
    the world will not know of it today.”
    Fallacies of Logic

    7. Hypothesis Contrary to Fact


    • “ I married you. So, if I hadn’t married you,
    you would have stayed without getting boy
    to marry.”
    Fallacies of Logic

    8. Poisoning the Well


    • To discredit or sabotage a person before they
    convey their message/argument
    • "Two men are having a debate. The first one gets
    up and says, ‘My opponent is a notorious liar. You
    can't believe a word that he is going to say.”
    THE ENDING

    What happened after the third


    date?
    How did the story end?
    THE ENDING

    DG: Polly, tonight we will not discuss fallacies.


    PE: Aw, gee
    DG: My dear, we have now spent five evenings together. We
    have gotten along splendidly. It is clear that we are well
    matched.
    PE: Hasty Generalization. How can you say that we are well
    matched on the basis of only five dates?
    THE ENDING

    DG: My dear, five dates is plenty. After all, you


    don’t have to eat a whole cake to know that
    it’s good.
    PE: False Analogy. I’m not a cake. I’m a girl.
    THE ENDING
    DG: Polly, I love you. You are the whole world to me, and the
    moon and the stars and the constellations of outer space.
    Please say that you will go steady with me, for if you will
    not, life will be meaningless. I will languish. I will refuse
    my meals. I will wander the face of the earth, a
    shambling, hollow-eyed hulk.
    PE: Ad Misericordiam
    THE ENDING
    DG: Well Polly, you certainly have learned your fallacies.
    PE: You’re darn right.
    DG: And who taught them to you, Polly?
    PE: You did.
    DG: That’s right. So you owe me something, don’t you
    my dear? If I hadn’t come along you never would
    have learned about fallacies.
    PE: Hypothesis Contrary to Fact
    THE ENDING
    DG: Polly, you mustn’t take all these things so literally. I mean this is
    just classroom stuff. You know that the things you learn in school
    don’t have anything to do with life.
    PE: Dicto Simpliciter
    DG: Will you or will you not go steady with me?
    PE: I will not.
    DG: Why not?
    PE: Because this afternoon I promised Petey Burch that I would go
    steady with him.
    THE ENDING

    DG: The rat! You can’t go with him, Polly. He’s a liar. He’s a
    cheat. He’s a rat.
    PE: Poisoning the Well.
    DG: All right. You’re a logician. Let’s look at this thing logically.
    How could you choose Petey over me? Can you give me
    one logical reason why you should go steady with Petey?
    PE: I certainly can. He’s got a raccoon coat.
    Ad Misericordiam
    Contradictory Premises
    Dicto Simpliciter
    False Analogy Fallacies in Logic
    Hasty Generalization
    Hypothesis Contrary to Fact
    Poisoning the Well
    Post Hoc
    What is the importance of thinking
    logically?
    What realities in life are shown in
    the story?
    How can we maintain harmonious
    relationship with others despite our
    differences?
    Do you believe that love is a
    fallacy?
    Why or why not?
    PAIR ACTIVITY

    Create a slogan about the


    insights you have learned from
    the story.

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