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	Hardy Miscellany
		It is not mandatory in modern literature that pathetic fallacy extend to the extremes of violent emotions.
		Thomas Hardy's use of pathetic fallacy in Far From the Madding Crowd serves to broaden the novels emotional scope in a subtle manner that allows him to provide depth to scenes, suggest censorable ideas, and prepare the reader for future events.
		Pathetic fallacy adds an entire dimension to Far From the Madding Crowd, and the greater one's understanding, the more prevalent it is throughout all literature.
	www.andover.edu /english/hardymisc/misc5.html (1369 words)

	Top Literature - Pathetic fallacy
		In literary criticism, the pathetic fallacy is the description of inanimate natural objects in a manner that endows them with human feelings, thoughts and sensations.
		Critics after Ruskin have generally not followed him in regarding the pathetic fallacy as an artistic mistake, instead assuming that attribution of sentient, humanising traits to nature is a centrally human way of understanding the world, and that it does have a useful and important role in art and literature.
		The pathetic fallacy is not a logical fallacy since it does not imply a mistake in reasoning.
	encyclopedia.topliterature.com /?title=Pathetic_fallacy (492 words)

	Pathetic fallacy
		The pathetic fallacy is the logical fallacy of treating inanimate objects or conceptual entities such as countries or groups of people as if they have thoughts or feelings.
		The pathetic fallacy with groups of people may overlap with the group attribution error: assuming most group behavior such as that of a disparate body such as a country is mostly situational, and it is difficult for such an entity to have any coherent disposition.
		Other literary uses for pathetic fallacy would be having a certain character exclaim a fact or opinion which coincides in some way to that character, yet they are unaware of it.
	www.wapipedia.com /wikipedia/mobiletopic.aspx?cur_title=Pathetic_fallacy (212 words)

	Ruskin's Discussion of the Pathetic Fallacy
		He always tried to demonstrate that an art centered on the feelings was not inevitably solipsistic, and this continuing struggle to protect his notions of painting and poetry from the dangers of subjectivity turns out to be as paradigmatic of his age as was the course of his religious belief.
		This idea that the pathetic fallacy effectively conveys truths of man's inner world makes it fulfill what Ruskin takes to be the role of art, which is to present things, not as they are in themselves -- the role of natural science -- but "as they appear to mankind.
		The truth conveyed by the pathetic fallacy is phenomenological truth, the truth of experience, the truth as it appears to the experiencing subject.
	victorian.lang.nagoya-u.ac.jp /victorianweb/technique/pathfall.html (1040 words)

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		In the arts, the pathetic fallacy is the act of ascribing human feelings to inanimate objects.
		We argue that the same fallacy is turning up on the semantic web---that researchers are (perhaps subconsciously) allowing the computer's internal representation of data to influence the way their tools present information to users, when instead they should developing interfaces that are based on the users' needs, independent of the computer's particular information representation.
		As we hope we have begun to demonstrate, it is a pathetic fallacy to assert that because the data model is a graph the data should therefore be displayed as a graph.
	swui.semanticweb.org /swui06/papers/Karger/Pathetic_Fallacy.html (8159 words)

	EEC: The Old Nature Poetry and the New
		If Langbaum is saying that poets avoid the pathetic fallacy only to create a deeper, less ego-driven bond between humans and nature, then he ironically recapitulates the argument of the fellow who invented the term in the first place, John Ruskin.
		For Ruskin, the pathetic fallacy was symptomatic of a characteristically modern and muddled attitude towards nature.
		The pathetic fallacy, "a dim, slightly credited animation in the natural object" (16.37), is only a remnant of classical and medieval beliefs that saw gods in every hill and stream and angels in the clouds (16.7).
	www.gvsu.edu /english/cummings/issue9/Webster9.htm (4012 words)

	Commens on John Ruskin's "The Pathetic Fallacy"
		There are two kinds of fallacy in poetry: first is "willful fancy" in which we assign attributes to things "with no real expectation that it will be believed" and the kind of fallacy that happens when violent feelings produce a falseness in our impressions of external things.
		It is also not a commission of the pathetic fallacy if comparisons or characterizations occur in conceits that are meant to conflict with the actual emotions in play.
		It is the pathetic fallacy when men are too moved or full of emotion to apprehend something in its true state.
	core.ecu.edu /engl/kaind/crit/rusktext.html (751 words)

	Science Fair Projects - Pathetic fallacy
		The pathetic fallacy is the logical fallacy of treating inanimate objects or conceptual entities such as countries as if they have thoughts or feelings.
		One particularly common appearance of the fallacy is when dealing with evolution.
		This device constitutes a fallacy only when it is used as a basis for inference; in literature the device is called personification, and is widely employed.
	www.all-science-fair-projects.com /science_fair_projects_encyclopedia/Pathetic_fallacy (362 words)

	fallacy - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		Fallacy, in logic, an error in reasoning, or more precisely, a mistake made in the process of moving from the premises of an argument to the...
		Pathetic Fallacy, term for the poetic device of endowing the natural world with human feelings, motives, or actions.
		John Ruskin was the leading Victorian critic of art and literature.
	uk.encarta.msn.com /fallacy.html (141 words)

	NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Robot
		Appears to have intent or agency (reification, anthropomorphisation or Pathetic fallacy).
		Natural is defined as of or relating to nature; this applies to both definitions of nature: essence (ones true nature) and the untouched world (force of nature).
		Robot Wars is a British television series, in which amateur constructors of robots compete in a tournament-style contest to see whose robot is the best.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Robot (826 words)

	The Pathetic Fallacy
		QUINN: I was merely indulging in the pathetic fallacy, Mr.
		ALICE KING: (merrily) I think that pathetic fallacy of yours is a fake.
		ALICE KING: You said that was the pathetic fallacy.
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	Observer \| Pathetic fallacy
		Was it pathetic and ridiculous that I captained the English Ocean Racing Team for three separate years, on the first occasion winning the championship over 18 other countries?
		Was it pathetic and ridiculous that the then Secretary General of the Commonwealth and I played the major part in the production of the Brandt report on International Development in 1981, which produced a better relationship between the developed and developing countries together with more aid in the latter than ever before?
		Is it pathetic and ridiculous that during this period, I have conducted so many of the world's great orchestras, including the Chicago and Philadelphia Symphony Orchestra, the Berlin Symphony Orchestra, the London Symphony Orchestra, the Beijing and Shanghai Symphony Orchestras, and the English Chamber Orchestra.
	observer.guardian.co.uk /print/0,3858,4150010-102277,00.html (257 words)

	Guardian \| A pathetic fallacy
		Just a few days before David Trimble denounced the Republic as a 'pathetic sectarian state', voters in that same Republic rejected the sectarian exhortations of the Catholic Bishops in alliance with Fianna Fail and voted against Bertie Ahern's proposal to reverse the X-case abortion judgement of 1992.
		Unionists should take note of the hurt caused by Trimble's 'pathetic sectarian state' jibe and begin to acknowledge the staggering changes that have taken place in the Republic.
		Nationalist Ireland, however, should put some perspective on this latest controversy - after all Trimble, for all his faults never killed anyone, while some of the weapons smuggled into Ireland by the likes of Martin Ferris were used to murder and maim fellow Irishmen and women in our name.
	www.guardian.co.uk /print/0,3858,4375888-103588,00.html (801 words)

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		[1] In literary criticism, the pathetic fallacy is the description of inanimate natural objects in a manner that endows them with human emotions, thoughts, sensations, and feelings.
		Pathetic in this usage is related to empathy (capability of feeling), and not intended to represent poor.
		Critics after Ruskin have generally not followed him in regarding the pathetic fallacy as an artistic mistake, instead assuming that attribution of sentient, humanising traits to nature is a centrally human way of understanding the world, and that it does have a useful and important role in art and literature.
	thegreenlantern.org /memory.html (3584 words)

	Of the pathetic fallacy by John Ruskin (1856)
		Now we are in the habit of considering this fallacy as eminently a character of poetical description, and the temper of mind in which we allow it as one eminently poetical, because passionate.
		They are not a pathetic fallacy at all, for they are put into the mouth of the wrong passion — a passion which never could possibly have spoken them — agonized curiosity.
		I believe these instances are enough to illustrate the main point I insist upon respecting the pathetic fallacy, — that so far as it is a fallacy, it is always the sign of a morbid state of mind, and comparatively of a.
	www.ourcivilisation.com /smartboard/shop/ruskinj (3455 words)

	Find Free Essays on Great Expectations use of atmosphere, pathetic fallacy
		Pathetic Fallacy: the attribution of human emotions or characteristics to inanimate objects or to nature.
		Example of Pathetic Fallacy in Great Expectations: “I walked away at a good pace, thinking it was easier to go than I had supposed it would be, and reflecting that it would never have done to have an old shoe thrown after the coach, in sight of all thee High Street.
		But the village was very peaceful and quiet, and the light mists were solemnly rising, as if to show me the world, and I had been so innocent and little there, and all beyond was so unknown to and great, that in a moment with a strong heave and sob I broke into tears.
	www.findfreeessays.com /show_essay/4174.html (194 words)

	Re: Reference and the pathetic fallacy, etc. (Site not responding. Last check: )
		David A. Hernandez Purnell writes: > > Dear Michael - > The term "pathetic fallacy" I think was always redolent of 19C > "romanticism".
		What intrigued me was your seeming supposition that it had > an "opposite" - the "anti-pathetic" - which is also "fallacious".
		No, I was saying that the "anti-pathetic fallacy" is to claim that no objects can be reasonably anthropomorphized.
	bureau.philo.at /phlo/199612/msg00101.html (271 words)

	Bad Science: pathetic fallacy
		And so it is, that I have come to deplore the frequent use of the pathetic fallacy as a device for teaching science.
		he pathetic fallacy is the name given the specious attribution of emotions --- which is to say, pathos --- to the inanimate.
		Besides, in each case in which I have seen where the pathetic fallacy used, it seemed much more likely that teacher used it to cover up an inadequacy in knowing how to explain matters correctly, rather than as a conscious decision to build an artistic and animistic metaphor.
	www.kidsnewsroom.org /elmer/infocentral/frameset/meterology/Bad/PatheticFallacy.html (1260 words)

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		There are certain fallacies that can properly be called pathetic because they evoke pity for the persons who perpetrate them -- and remember that we pity only individuals for whom we feel a certain sympathy.
		I have been sent a copy of a booklet by the late Thomas E. O'Brien, formerly entitled "Verboten" and now reissued under the title "Proof: God's Chosen are White Adamic Christians," published by the New Christian Crusade Church, P.O. Box 426, Metairie, Louisiana.
		It would be otiose to recapitulate the historically preposterous fictions that are contrived to support a probably well-meaning effort to mobilize Christians for the preservation of their race.
	www.faem.com /oliver/rpo098.htm (526 words)

	DLESE description of The Pathetic Fallacy: Animism Masquerading as Science in Education
		The Pathetic Fallacy: Animism Masquerading as Science in Education
		This resource warns against using pathetic fallacy and animism in the teaching of science.
		However, as the object of the material is educational - to replace bad science with good science - the material can be freely used for non-commercial purposes, with the proviso that any use of Frasers images must be credited with (c) Alistair B. Fraser, and any quotations must bear attribution.
	www.dlese.org /library/catalog_DLESE-000-000-006-660.htm (208 words)

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	Of the pathetic fallacy by John Ruskin (1856)
		Now we are in the habit of considering this fallacy as eminently a character of poetical description, and the temper of mind in which we allow it as one eminently poetical, because passionate.
		They are not a pathetic fallacy at all, for they are put into the mouth of the wrong passion — a passion which never could possibly have spoken them — agonized curiosity.
		I believe these instances are enough to illustrate the main point I insist upon respecting the pathetic fallacy, — that so far as it is a fallacy, it is always the sign of a morbid state of mind, and comparatively of a.
	ourcivilisation.com /smartboard/shop/ruskinj (3455 words)

	The Pathetic Fallacy in Swift's Novels (Site not responding. Last check: )
		A phrase invented by John Ruskin to designate the illusion that external objects seem actuated by human feelings, particularly when one is under great emotional strain.
		Tennyson's "In Memoriam," Shelly's "Adonais," and other elegies are especially noteworthy for eloquent effects gained by the use of the pathetic fallacy.
		For the pathetic fallacy to be active, the author must first invoke some form of description (of Nature?) (As a wise man once said: "It's not really the heat, it's not really the humidity.
	www.postcolonialweb.org /uk/gswift/pfallacy.html (294 words)

	King Lear's Storm -Folger Shakespeare Library
		Define pathetic fallacy as the attributing of human behaviors and actions to inanimate objects.
		Ask the students to provide examples of pathetic fallacy from the play.
		Connect the storm in Act 3 to the idea of pathetic fallacy, and ask the students what its use might be in this play.
	www.folger.edu /eduLesPlanDtl.cfm?lpid=618 (548 words)

	SK Writers Guidelines
		If you interrupt the flow of the story to send a reader to the dictionary, the word should be worth the trip.
		Avoid pathetic fallacy/anthropomorphism: The sea may seem cruel, but it’s just a bunch of waves, none of them malicious.
		In describing animal behavior, focus on what you see and hear, and steer clear of what you think the animal is thinking or feeling.
	www.seakayakermag.com /contribute/writers_guidelines.htm (1603 words)

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