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The pathetic fallacy, anthropomorphic fallacy or sentimental fallacy is the treatment of inanimate objects as if they had human feelings, thought, or sensations
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The word 'pathetic' in this use is related to 'pathos' or 'empathy' (capability of feeling), and is not pejorative.
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the pathetic fallacy is similar to personification
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Personification is direct and explicit in the ascription of life and sentience to the thing in question, whereas the pathetic fallacy is much broader and more allusive.
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the aim of the pathetic fallacy was “to signify any description of inanimate natural objects that ascribes to them human capabilities, sensations, and emotions.
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The temperament which admits the pathetic fallacy, is, as I said above, that of a mind and body in some sort too weak to deal fully with what is before them or upon them; borne away, or over-clouded, or over-dazzled by emotion
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attribution of sentient, humanising traits to inanimate things is a centrally human way of understanding the world, and that it does have a useful and important role in art and literature
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Historically, the properties and interactions of classical elements were described as if they were animate
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natura abhorret a vacuo
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Even in modern science it is difficult to speak about the physical world without personifying it.
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use of the pathetic fallacy can be a good way to quickly explain complex scientific concepts in an easily understood form
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in the natural sciences, a pathetic fallacy is a serious error in scientific reasoning if taken literally
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this fallacy should be done to render analogy.[citation needed] Other reasons to deliver this fallacy are mnemonic
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use of the pathetic fallacy can be a good way to quickly explain complex scientific concepts in an easily understood form.
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