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.