Points to Ponder, Complex Fallacies & Quotes

Points to Ponder, Complex Fallacies & Quotes By Dr. Sohail Ansari

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

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

Points to Ponder

·        Communism was the harbinger for only those who reasoned from its premise alone; but it was not the disembodied logic of the doctrine alone, but the elusive practical ambiguities __the natural corollary of conducting methodology on the intuitive understanding of human action and social goals__ and the mediation of a doctrine in experience through successive responses which failed to give human and social cost their due, even as means to an end.

·        West has the influence of Islamic philosophy on its thoughts, but has repudiated because of the legacy of hatred only its sources, not the brain child but its paternity: resemblance is discounted accordingly as more apparent than real.

·        It is a second nature of every chauvinist, jingoist, and ultra racist to condone ethnic cleansing as merely a passing historical episode and to rationalize and compromise with it as the prize that is to be paid for a ‘pure state’. Price, might come high for himself and for the society, has always been purely an instrumental consideration in his humanistic calculus; the ‘pure society’ can only be achieved at the tragic sacrifice of life on the empirical plane.      

Complex fallacies

·        Picasso created only beautiful work of art; if this work of art is not beautiful then it is not created by Picasso and if it is beautiful then it is created by Picasso.

·        There must not be any law to protect lives of participants in sport events such as car-racing as then car-racing will hardly be indistinguishable from benign games such as table tennis or squash.  

·        Spiritual leader condemning worldly joys seems to be relishing the comfort of air-conditioned hall.

Merit for snobbish taste

·        To snobbish taste, the most important merit of the product is its limited accessibility.  

Quotable Quotes from ‘N’

Nation

·        As long as nation holds ability to obtain desired results abroad by projecting than exercising power, limits of its power remain unexposed.

Nepotism

·        Nepotism is not bad in a society if it approves entitlement by birth.

New but not different

·        If new dish can be enjoyed according to established expectations for satisfaction, it is either new but not different or different but not new. 

New life/rebirth

·        ‘A new life’ in medical sense is a return from a point of no return to former self. It is a new beginning to do same things. ‘A new life’ in spiritual sense begins from point of return and continues as long as one does not return to former self. It is a new beginning to do different things.  One is gift for you from doctor and other is gift for you from you.   

Non-practicing preacher and non-practicing naked man

·        Same words of non practicing preacher and naked man selling a shirt ‘do what I say but do not do what I do’ prove different things. They prove the former fool as he is not benefited form beneficial and the latter clever as he is not harmed from thing he is claiming to be   beneficial.

Non-capitalist society

·        Society can’t be anti-capitalist as long as it likes the things only unequal distribution of money can buy