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pathetic fallacy

noun

Etymology

Coined by British cultural critic John Ruskin in 1856 in his work Modern Painters. Here, fallacy does not refer to a logical fallacy, but should be understood as a falsehood, something that is untrue, while pathetic here means caused by an excited state of the feelings; thus, emotional misrepresentation, not contemptible illogic.

Definitions

  1. A metaphor which consists in treating inanimate objects or concepts as if they were human…

    A metaphor which consists in treating inanimate objects or concepts as if they were human beings, for instance having thoughts or feelings.

    • The next generation of AI will put the pathetic fallacy on steroids.

The neighborhood

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No curated loop yet for pathetic fallacy. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA