Comical Fallacies And Circular Reasoning

Circular reasoning and Comical fallacies by DR. Sohail Ansari

      Conceived and worded by DR. Sohail Ansari (originality of concepts and originality of words).

Dr Sohail believes that there can never be a zero scope for improvement and appreciates criticism if it is not for the sake of criticism. 

Circular reasoning

• He speaks about virtues because he is virtuous; therefore he is virtuous because he speaks about virtues.

Comical Fallacies

• The man who fears only God never keeps any body guard.
• One must smoke heavily to die in young age as old age correlates with illness.
• As he can not read and write so he must be an animal as animals can not read and write.
• Day becomes warmer because of my sighting of sun as always in morning it happens after my sighting
• Difficulty I had in dealing with question was due to his warning as he had warned me that question would be difficult.
• Robbing is favor as money corrupts people.
• Justice must be denied if it gets late as justice late is justice denied.
• One must know nothing to explain the meaning of nothing.
• Every soldier must work in a lab as performance of computer staff is best in military.
• Questions (from students) irrelevant to lecture elicit funny answers (from teacher); therefore funny answers create irrelevant questions.   
• Government during peace is better as there is no war in its period than government during war as there is a war during its period.
• For not being with devil one had better to be alone as it is always better to be alone than with devil.
• Resisting oppressors is going against the will of God as things happen as God wills.
• No soldier who claims to love country should be given salary as getting salary proves that he fight for money.
• Preaching people to obey God is wrong as people must not obey God due to preaching.
• It is a great achievement on a part of the government that most of people in a country have only one meal in a day as having one meal in a day is always better than having hardly a meal.
• Government by encouraging turmoil in a country has proved itself to be the true friend of farmers as violence leads to the rise in price of wheat and rice in price of wheat is beneficial for farmers.
• Either we have better life expectancy due to much pollution or much pollution due to better life expectancy because in non- industrial world neither we had much pollution nor we had good life expectancy.  
• Basic level of a foreign language course is of no use as students are able to speak that language only in advance level.
• If leader is good on oratory then he must not be a great leader because great leader is defined by action not words.
• We must ban vegetables in the military bases to produce war heroes as most of the war heroes were not vegetarian.       
• Doctor must not examine any patient as only a few patients can be examined in two hours and that is injustice to remaining others.
• One must not denote to any charity as denoting to all is impossible and denoting to one is injustice to thousands of charities operating in a country.
• Government must order restaurants to offer tasteless food to tackle obesity as obesity is due to heavy consumption and heavy consumption is due to delicious food.
• Measures to reform economy have no significance as commoner can not grasp their significance.   
• School must place Zero-emphasis on discipline as regimentation stifles creativity.  
• He must be a great writer as he writes at night and many great writers wrote at night.
• If person has not read anything so he has not read this book because it is said that if person has not read this book so he has not read anything.
• If person has read anything so he has read this book because it is said that if person has not read this book so he has not read anything.