A metaphor which consists in treating inanimate objects or concepts as if they were human beings, for instance having thoughts or feelings.
Origin
in his book Modern Painting. The term fallacy does not refer to a logical fallacy, but should be understood as “a falsehood, something that is untrue”, while pathetic here means “caused by an excited state of the feelings”.
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