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. Addyman, Marie. Alt, Christina. Nature; An English Literary Heritage. pp. 2 + 129. D.S. Brewer Pub. (2021) ISBN 9781843846024 Example: Of course it’s fine to wait until the last minute to write your paper. Everybody does it! 10 Now, so long as we see that the feeling is true, we pardon, or are even pleased by, the confessed fallacy of sight, which it induces: we are pleased, for instance, with those lines . . . above quoted, not because they fallaciously describe foam, but because they faithfully describe sorrow. [12] Pathetic fallacy is a specific type of personification, or the attribution of human qualities to non-human things.

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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] Copi, Irving M.; Cohen, Carl (2005). Introduction to Logic (12thed.). Pearson Education, Inc. p.125. ISBN 978-0-13-189834-9. English scholar and theologian Richard Whately (1787–1863) defines a fallacy broadly as, "any argument, or apparent argument, which professes to be decisive of the matter at hand, while in reality it is not". [18] :8 a b Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics, Alex Preminger, Ed., Princeton University Press, 1974 ISBN 0-691-01317-9The person responsible for coining the phrase ‘pathetic fallacy’ was the noted Victorian art critic John Ruskin (1819-1900), in his 1856 book Modern Painters. Ruskin outlined

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Abrams, M.H.; Harpham, G.G. (2011) [1971]. A Glossary of Literary Terms. Wadsworth, Cengage Learning. p.269. ISBN 9780495898023. LCCN 2010941195. Ah, we love pathetic fallacy here at Beyond English. Ensure your students can identify and use pathetic fallacy with our An Introduction to Pathetic Fallacy Lesson, which is part of our wider "Intro-to" series. Using this lesson, students will: Even though every project Brad has managed in the last two years has run way behind schedule, I still think we can chalk it up to unfortunate circumstances, not his project management skills. 7. The Correlation/Causation Fallacy

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.