Absurd generalization from a particular incident

Motif

Absurd generalization from a particular incident.

The wise and the foolish. · Fools (and other unwise persons). · Absurd lack of logic. · Logical absurdity based upon certain false assumptions. · view the constellation · filed as J2214

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general U.S., England: *Baughman.

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Filed under Logical absurdity based upon certain false assumptions.

12 finer motifs beneath it

Peas will burn. Fool warns those who ride through a field of peas. "You will burn your horses' feet. I burned my mouth with hot peas the other day." Conclusion: youth and age are alike. Reason: he tried in vain as a youth to lift a certain stone; he has also tried in vain as an old man Waiting at the well for the thief. A thief has stolen a salted cheese. Since one always goes to the well after eating salted cheese, the thief will also come Human milk as best diet (for baby). Fool therefore will take nothing but milk from his wife and starves the baby Man is servant of the animals (for he supplies feed for them). Fish so reason Men must have been calves once (for they are fond of milk). Fish so reason. (Cf. B233.1.) Oil is cheap (or spilling oil is good luck). Man hearing this breaks oil vessels Fool carries his wife to the remedy instead of the opposite Dipping into cold water to cure fever, since hot iron is so cooled Starving colt fierce from hunger, but fool refuses to feed it lest it become fiercer England must be full of widows. So concludes widow's daughter, who makes her living by spinning, when she sees so much warm goods from England False judgment of distance in clear atmosphere of mountain area

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Differences in animal nature overlooked Effects of age and size absurdly applied Illogical use of numbers Absurd reasoning about God Poor man thinks idol in temple is poorer than he since it is naked Many times the superlative

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