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pathetic fallacy

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the fallacy of attributing human feelings to inanimate objects; `the friendly sun' is an example of the pathetic fallacy

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All violent feelings have the same effect. They produce in us a falseness in all our impressions of external things, which I would generally characterize as the pathetic fallacy. John Ruskin

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