Love Is a Fallacy 正式(学生的问题)

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If to give an individual definition to love, what will your definition be?

Love is ___________________. 每位学生想出一个词。上课提问。

Practicing (Appreciation of logic fallacies)

In this story, there are many logical terms and examples about these terms which are given by the narrator in correspondence. You have previewed the story. Can you list all of them?

Analyze the following fallacies with the help of the text.

Dicto Simpliciter (绝对判断)

Hasty Generalization(草率结论, 不完全归纳)

Post Hoc (牵强附会, 假性因果)

Contradictory Premises (矛盾前提, 二立背反，大前提有毛病

Ad Misericordiam：拉丁文，意思为诉诸同情文不对题(a Latin phrase meaning "to pity" ; a fallacy in logic of appealing to pity or compassion. )

False Analogy (错误类比)

Hypothesis Contrary to Fact (与事实相反的假设)

Poisoning the Well (投毒下井)

1. Dog is a pet. Everyone likes it.

2. I haven’t seen a UFO; Jason hasn’t either; Ms Yan hasn’t probably; so no UFO at all.

3. Don’t sing this song. Every time you sing this song, the baby gets sick.

4. This is the mightiest sword which is able to shatter any shield, and that is the most indestructible shield which is capable of enduring any stroke.

5. “He was late to the class today.” “Because he was scolded by his mother yesterday.”

6. Since we have moon cakes in the Moon Festival, why don’t we have spring cakes in the Spring Festival?

7. If the gunpowder hadn’t been invented, there wouldn’t have been so many wars in the world.

8. Don’t listen to any word from him, for he is most shameful cheating around the world.

Please match the terms with those examples which will help you to understand how does the plot develop in the whole text. （study group）

What are the characteristics of the title?

What kind of genre the text belong to? Argumentation\narration\exposition\description?

Elements of a story

Setting:

Conflict: fallacy & Love

Characters:

Protagonist:

Antagonist:

Point of view:

Ⅴ. detailed study

Para 4

1.who is the protagonist? What is the name?

How did the narrator describe himself? Notice the way he introduced himself What is the function of this exaggerated self-praise?

1) Cool was I and logical. (what kind of sentence structure?)

2) Keen, calculating, perspicacious, acute and astute-- I was all of these. Give the English meaning and make sentences.

What is the rhetorical device in the following comparison?

His brain –

1. dynamo -- powerful

2. a chemist's scales--- precise, accurate

3. scalpel -- penetrating

3. What's the purpose of the author to tell the characteristics of '' I '' at the beginning?

p5-21 introduction of the first antagonist -- Petey Burch

How does the narrator evaluate Petey? What kind of personality does that show? Please pick out words or phrases to describe Petey.

Para.5

Please complete the following three sentences.

1) Same age, same background, but dumb as an ox. (give us the whole sentence)

2) A nice enough young fellow, you understand, but nothing upstairs.

3) Emotional type. Unstable. Impressionable. Worst of all, a faddist.

2. Fads, I submit, are the very negation of reason. (paraphrase)

Study paras 25,26,27

How does the writer evaluate the girl?

But what is his standard for choosing his spouse(配偶)?

How did he see marriage?

Discussion: 1. What is your view on marriage?

2. What are your standards for choosing your spouse?