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Preformity In Love Is A Fallacy By Max Shulman

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Fallacies get the best out of all of us. Many people tend to give their own point of view on matters that interest them. However, at times they are not credible because they do not have evidence to support their reasoning. Max Shulman wrote a passage, Love is a Fallacy, that discusses the stereotypes of woman. Shulman demonstrates conformity in society through the acceptance of segregation of women and other minorities. These acts of conformity and presumptions are conveyed through the use of fallacies. Using this passage as an example, fallacies are shown to be used in many arguments; as a way to change the subject or get out of answering a question. In the passage, Shulman uses different types of fallacies: ambiguity, presumption, and relevance. Shulman uses fallacies of ambiguity in his passage to give multiple interpretations of his message to the audience. An example of equivocation stated in the passage is, “Beautiful she was. She was not yet of pin-up proportions, but I felt sure that time would supply the lack.” (Shulman 382). This is an example of equivocation because there are many propositions that leads to the final statement. However, the propositions being made do not make sense in the final claim. The narrator states that Polly is beautiful, but he uses deceptive language to hide that he thinks that she is truly not perfect yet. Fallacy of composition is another example used in the passage, “It is, after all , easier to make a beautiful dumb girl smart than

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