[英语学习]love is a fallacy.ppt

Lesson Five Lesson Five Love is a Fallacy ---- by Max Shulman arrangement 1. background information: author and the title 2. about fallacy, logic fallacy ,argument 3. logic fallacies mentioned in the book 4. text appreciation and the theme 5. text structure and the four dates 6. characters analysis and their relationship Max Shulman (1919 ---- 1988) is one of the America’s best-known humorists. He is a writer of many talents ---- he has written novels, stories, Broadway plays, movie scenarios and television scripts. I. Author Max Shulman is best remembered for creating the popular character Dobie Gillis, a typical American teen who frequently suffered from romantic angst, a feeling of persistent worry. The character appeared on a popular television sitcom (i.e. situation comedy情景剧) during the 1950s and was in a feature film in 1953. Other works by Max Shulman I. Author How do you understand the title of the text? 2 When taken as a specific term in logic, the title means “ love can not be deduced from a set of given premises”, that is, love is illogical. 1 When “fallacy” is taken in its ordinary sense, the title means “ there is a deceptive or delusive quality about love”. Fallacy Fallacies are defects in an argument - other than false premises - which cause an argument to be invalid, unsound?(无根据的,有缺点地) or weak. 1) an idea which many people believe to be true but which is in fact false because it is based on incorrect information or faulty reasoning.2) a weakness and lack of logic or good sense in an argument or piece of arguing. E.g. The belief that women are always weaker than men is just a fallacy. What is a Logical Fallacy? A logical fallacy is, roughly speaking, an error of reasoning. When someone adopts a position, or tries to persuade someone else to adopt a position, based on a bad piece of reasoning, they commit a fallacy. When people speak of logical fallacies they often mean to refer to this collection of well-known e