Love Is a Fallacy
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Love Is a Fallacy is a humorous short story by Max Shulman that satirizes logical reasoning and romantic relationships through the misadventures of the character Dobie Gillis.
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| Love Is a Fallacy canonical | 1 |
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Love Is a Fallacy Context triple: [Dobie Gillis, appearsIn, Love Is a Fallacy]
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A.
Love and Hisses
Love and Hisses is a 1937 American comedy film best known for featuring comedian Bert Lahr in an early screen role.
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B.
Love Is for Losers
Love Is for Losers is the debut studio album by punk rock band The Longshot, a side project of Green Day frontman Billie Joe Armstrong.
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C.
The Truth About Love
The Truth About Love is a 2012 studio album by American singer Pink that blends pop-rock and emotional ballads while exploring themes of love, heartbreak, and self-empowerment.
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D.
Love's Cruelty
Love's Cruelty is a Caroline-era tragic play by James Shirley that explores themes of passion, betrayal, and moral corruption in a courtly setting.
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E.
What You Won't Do for Love
"What You Won't Do for Love" is a smooth jazz-inflected R&B love song by Bobby Caldwell, released in 1978 and widely regarded as his signature hit.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
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Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Love Is a Fallacy Target entity description: Love Is a Fallacy is a humorous short story by Max Shulman that satirizes logical reasoning and romantic relationships through the misadventures of the character Dobie Gillis.
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A.
Love and Hisses
Love and Hisses is a 1937 American comedy film best known for featuring comedian Bert Lahr in an early screen role.
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B.
Love Is for Losers
Love Is for Losers is the debut studio album by punk rock band The Longshot, a side project of Green Day frontman Billie Joe Armstrong.
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C.
The Truth About Love
The Truth About Love is a 2012 studio album by American singer Pink that blends pop-rock and emotional ballads while exploring themes of love, heartbreak, and self-empowerment.
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D.
Love's Cruelty
Love's Cruelty is a Caroline-era tragic play by James Shirley that explores themes of passion, betrayal, and moral corruption in a courtly setting.
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E.
What You Won't Do for Love
"What You Won't Do for Love" is a smooth jazz-inflected R&B love song by Bobby Caldwell, released in 1978 and widely regarded as his signature hit.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
humorous short story
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satirical work ⓘ short story ⓘ |
| author | Max Shulman ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States
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linked to:
United States of America
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| educationalUse |
college composition courses
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high school English classes ⓘ introductory logic courses ⓘ teaching logical fallacies ⓘ |
| featuresCharacter |
Petey Burch
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Polly Espy ⓘ |
| firstPublicationMedium | magazine ⓘ |
| genre |
campus fiction
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humor ⓘ satire ⓘ |
| hasEnding | ironic reversal of the protagonist’s expectations ⓘ |
| hasMotif |
courtship as logical exercise
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trading a girlfriend for material goods ⓘ |
| hasTargetOfSatire |
didactic teaching of logic
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overly rationalistic thinking ⓘ pretentious college students ⓘ |
| isFrequentlyAnthologizedIn |
American literature textbooks
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logic and rhetoric readers ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| literaryPeriod | 20th century American literature ⓘ |
| mainCharacter | Dobie Gillis ⓘ |
| narrativePerspective | first-person narration ⓘ |
| narrator | Dobie Gillis ⓘ |
| portrays | misuse of formal logic in everyday life ⓘ |
| setting | American college campus ⓘ |
| teachesConcept |
ad misericordiam
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contradictory premises ⓘ dicto simpliciter ⓘ fallacy of composition ⓘ false analogy ⓘ hasty generalization ⓘ hypothesis contrary to fact ⓘ poisoning the well ⓘ post hoc ⓘ |
| theme |
contrast between logic and emotion
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intellectual arrogance ⓘ limits of logic ⓘ logical fallacies ⓘ romantic relationships ⓘ |
| tone |
comic
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ironic ⓘ |
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Subject: Love Is a Fallacy Description of subject: Love Is a Fallacy is a humorous short story by Max Shulman that satirizes logical reasoning and romantic relationships through the misadventures of the character Dobie Gillis.
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