No Monkey Business! What's my fallacy kids? 

Photo Time

After class today, I thought I would experiment with photos on the Blog and show Chris and Alfredo that I can blog with the best of 'em! So, your next blogging assignment is to post a photo and identify a fallacy that might be evident in the photo, using Chapter Eight. The photo has to have you in it and, yes, you must have clothes on, Brian! Ok--I'll go first: Here is a picture of Steve and I...It features the faulty analogy fallacy by suggesting that being in love and getting married is ALWAYS happy bliss, LIKE a beautiful day at the beach with crashing waves and a light salty mist, a natural beautiful fantasy......when in reality, it is also like sitting in bumper to bumper traffic....or, say -- like being enlisted in the army, while other days might it is like reading an encyclopedia for nine or so hours straight...so the fallacy comes in when an argument (visual or written) relies too heavily on a particular analogy, insisting that something is LIKE something else, either literal or figurative. This example is figurative because the blissful beach serves as a metaphor for wedded bliss. A literal analogy would be: My marriage is LIKE Tom Cruise and Katy Holmes's marriage. Wait, are they married? Well, anyway, get the picture? AHAHhahaheehahah NO really, I mean it: 'get the picture' and do the assignment before I flunk you. By the way, wouldn't it have been funny if we sent out a wedding photo of the two of us slumped on the couch in wrinkled sweats, watching E.R. and fighting over the remote?

Sincerely,

Blog City