Phallacy: Life Lessons from the Animal Penis

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The pathetic fallacy examples in the above lines describe the ominous atmosphere on the night of Duncan’s murder. The unruly night, the screams of death in the air, and the feverous earth depict the evil act of murder that happened a night before. Example #2: Wuthering Heights (By Emily Bronte) Convey the emotional state of a characters and/or narrator, because the way that character or narrator describes the world in fact reveals the state of their own mind. Mating leopard slugs dangle from branches by a shared rope of their own slime with their penises hanging below. As hermaphrodites, these slugs inseminate each other during sex so, once the action starts, two penises are on display. And their penises are easily spotted: They’re electric blue and roughly the size of the slugs themselves. Greek philosopher Aristotle also wrote about logical fallacies. He identified thirteen fallacies, divided into verbal and material fallacies, in his work Sophistical Refutations. By Aristotle’s definition, a verbal fallacy is one where the language used is ambiguous or incorrect, and a material fallacy is an argument that involves faulty or flawed reasoning.

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Fallacies are types of erroneous reasoning that render arguments logically unsound. [7] According to The New Handbook of Cognitive Therapy Techniques, they include "unsubstantiated assertions that are often delivered with a conviction that makes them sound as though they are proven facts." [8] Informal fallacies, in particular, are frequently found in mass media such as television and newspapers. [9] Understanding fallacies may allow one to recognize them in either one's own or others' writing. Avoiding fallacies may help improve one's ability to produce sound arguments. [10] Argumentation theory provides a different approach to understanding and classifying fallacies. In the pragma-dialectical theory, for instance, an argument is regarded as an interactive protocol between individuals who attempt to resolve their disagreement on the merits of a case. [14] The protocol consists of normative rules of interaction, and violations of these rules are considered fallacies because they frustrate the attempt at resolving the disagreement. Personification can involve the attribution of any human quality, action, or attribute to nonhuman things Examples of personification that are not pathetic fallacy would include saying that "The waves winked in the sunlight" or "The wind played hide-and-go-seek among the trees," since neither of these suggest any particular emotion.Shewan, Edward (2003). "Soundness of Argument". Applications of Grammar: Principles of Effective Communication (2nded.). Christian Liberty Press. ISBN 978-1-930367-28-9 . Retrieved February 22, 2016. For an argument to be a slippery slope type of argument, it must meet the requirements of that argumentation scheme. A slippery slope argument originates from a conversation or debate in which two actors take turns. It usually originates from one actor giving advice on a decision or act. Along the way, the actor must make additional choices on similar matters through which the actor enters the ‘grey area’ of the slippery slope. At this point, the actor potentially loses control over the direction of the arguments, thus leading to a ‘fatal’ outcome. [31] Sometimes one just isn’t enough. Or so it seems for the echidna, a spiny egg-laying mammal, which has evolved a four-headed penis. During copulation, echidna penises operate on a part-time schedule: half the penis temporarily shuts down while the other two heads are responsible for fertilization. But those extra two heads aren’t there just to show off. Next time the echidna mates, he’ll alternate which half he uses. Aristotle's 13 fallacies". www.logiclaw.co.uk. Archived from the original on 2018-07-18 . Retrieved 2017-12-12.

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Logical fallacies are likely as old as language itself, but they were first recognized and cataloged as such in the Nyāya-Sūtras , the foundational text of the Nyāya school of Hindu philosophy. This text, written somewhere between the 6th century BCE and the 2nd century CE and attributed to Akṣapāda Gautama, identified five distinct ways that an argument could be logically flawed. Argumentation theory– Study of how conclusions are reached through logical reasoning; one of four rhetorical modes A causal fallacy is one that implies a relationship between two things where one can’t actually be proven. Badhita: When another proof (as by perception) definitely contradicts and disproves the middle term (reason). 'Fire is cold because it is a substance'.Ruskin intended that pathetic fallacy may also refer to any untrue description: as in the description of a crocus as "gold," when the flower is, according to Ruskin, saffron in colour. [8] An additional difference between pathetic fallacy and personification is that pathetic fallacy is often associated only with the attribution of human emotions to aspects of nature (sun, sky, wind, etc.), while personification is applied to things both natural and man-made. Pathetic Fallacy vs. Anthropomorphism There are a couple of things to say to this. First, Ruskin goes on to find far more egregious examples of pathetic fallacy in other poets (the example he gives is from Alexander Pope’s translation of Homer’s Odyssey), next to which Coleridge’s has a pleasing charm to it. Second, our modern use of ‘pathetic fallacy’ as a term has lost sight of the fallacious part of Ruskin’s phrase: the thing he sought most of all in art was Truth (with a capital T), and pathetic fallacy is ‘morbid’ because it attributes false emotions or moods to things which cannot possibly feel them. (Another example he gives is of the ‘raging waves’ of the sea, which even by then had become a poetic cliché.) We tend to use the term ‘pathetic fallacy’ in a more neutral way now, but for Ruskin, it was (usually) a sign of Bad Poetry. Coffey, P. (1912). The Science of Logic. Vol.1 (1sted.). Longmans, Green, and Co. p. 302. ISBN 978-0371778951. LCCN 12018756. OCLC 797892247. OL 7104938M . Retrieved 2016-02-22. In the poem "Porphyria's Lover," the speaker describes the wind as sullen, and destroying trees out of spite.

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But pathetic fallacy is more specific: it’s about attributing false emotions or moods to inanimate objects (especially in nature), emotions or moods which are actually felt or experienced by the (human) speaker, narrator, or character. Anthropomorphism, in contrast, is the literal attribution of human characteristics to animals and other non-human things. The human qualities assigned to these characters are not just figurative ways of describing them, as they are in pathetic fallacy. Rather, in anthropomorphism the non-human entities actually do human things like talking, falling in love, wiggling their eyebrows, and generally behaving like people behave. Anthropomorphism is usually used to create non-human characters, such as Winnie the Pooh, the Little Engine that Could, or Simba from the movie The Lion King.Dolphins are known for their intelligence, promiscuity and absurdly dexterous penises. They have a prehensile penis, meaning it can swivel, grab and grope, much like a human hand. A prehensile penis helps males navigate the complex, labyrinth-like reproductive tracts of female dolphins.

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Unlike other species that use a similar process—butterflies, mites, beetles—males of these species don’t have a similar penetrative organ, only the females do, says Willingham. A Temporary Tool Shakespeare uses pathetic fallacy in his play Macbeth to describe the dark murder of the character Duncan. In Act 2, Scene 3, Lennox says: Other famous methods of classifying fallacies are those of Francis Bacon and J. S. Mill. Bacon ( Novum Organum, Aph. 33, 38 sqq.) divided fallacies into four Idola (Idols, i.e. False Appearances), which summarize the various kinds of mistakes to which the human intellect is prone. J. S. Mill discussed the subject in book five of his Logic, and Jeremy Bentham's Book of Fallacies (1824) contains valuable remarks. Scientists have found that barnacle penis features change based on where they live. Those in rougher waters have shorter, stouter penises, while those in calmer areas have long, slender penises. The wind, of course, may be powerful and destructive, but it isn't purposefully causing damage. Instead, the speaker's description of the wind reveals the speaker's state of mind. Pathetic Fallacy in MusicBlue whales are the largest creature to ever roam the earth, and they certainly have the phallus to match. Blue whale penises range between eight and ten feet, with a foot-long diameter. Each of its testes along can weigh up to 150 pounds and can ejaculate gallons of sperm in a single go. Example: Peppers are the easiest vegetable to grow because I think peppers are the easiest vegetable to grow. 12 With the bandwagon fallacy, the arguer claims that a certain action is the right thing to do because it’s popular. a b Meho, Lokman I. (2007). "The Rise and Rise of Citation Analysis". Physics World. January: 32–36. arXiv: physics/0701012. Bibcode: 2007physics...1012M. doi: 10.1088/2058-7058/20/1/33. S2CID 16532275. Fallacies may be committed intentionally to manipulate or persuade by deception, unintentionally because of human limitations such as carelessness, cognitive or social biases and ignorance, or potentially due to the limitations of language and understanding of language. These delineations include not only the ignorance of the right reasoning standard but also the ignorance of relevant properties of the context. For instance, the soundness of legal arguments depends on the context in which they are made. [4]