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• 06 Feb 15
  

  Morgan Hensley
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  Chris Paizis

  • The pathetic fallacy, anthropomorphic fallacy or sentimental fallacy is the treatment of inanimate objects as if they had human feelings, thought, or sensations
  • The word 'pathetic' in this use is related to 'pathos' or 'empathy' (capability of feeling), and is not pejorative.
  • the pathetic fallacy is similar to personification
  • 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.
  • the aim of the pathetic fallacy was “to signify any description of inanimate natural objects that ascribes to them human capabilities, sensations, and emotions.
  • 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
  • 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
  • Historically, the properties and interactions of classical elements were described as if they were animate
  • natura abhorret a vacuo
  • Even in modern science it is difficult to speak about the physical world without personifying it.
  • 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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• 20 Sep 10
  

  michaeljamespruitt
  • in the natural sciences, a pathetic fallacy is a serious error in scientific reasoning if taken literally
  • this fallacy should be done to render analogy.^{[citation needed]} Other reasons to deliver this fallacy are mnemonic
  • 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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  Mats Svensson

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  Coined by William Ruskin to describe the attribution of human qualities to inanimate objects. He disapproved

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