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Love is a Fallacy

 


This is based on the story by Max Schulman. Fallacy is false reasoning. For instance, this morning, after just leaving home, a black cat crossed the road; one thinks it’s ominous to go out today. There are many people who do this. This is a fallacy. Another instance could be every morning. When you come to college, you meet someone. You smile at him and vice versa. But he didn’t this morning. You start wondering why and creating reasons yourself. There might be no reason too. We usually try making false reasoning and come to wrong conclusion. Take another example: there are three baskets of apples. You choose one basket from basket A which tastes sour. The second basked had sour apples too and the third too gave a sour apple. Hence, the wrong conclusion here is that all apples are sour.

So the main question here is: like the false reasoning stated above, can love be a fallacy? The truth is love cannot be with reason. How important is reason in love? Do we fall in love with someone simply because they have all the characteristics that we think would be suitable in our partner? Do you think because someone is good looking, smart and well educated, they’d be the perfect match for you? In our life, we make fallacy time and again. And we have misconception about ourselves sometimes.

Just to be clear, reasoning requires a premise upon which the conclusion is based. 3 things a good reasoning should have are

  • Truth
  • Validity
  • Soundness

We cannot derive or state if love is a fallacy simply because to derive the right conclusion, the premise itself is wrong. Love is not something that is planned. The mind cannot choose who the right person is to fall in love with. It, in fact, is all about the heart and the heart never needs to use logic.

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