Quotes, Crocodile Dilemma for reinforcement or reassurance, Paradox of material implication, The use of Paradox of material implication as the rhetorical device for absolution, Enthymeme, Political literature & Affronted assertion

Quotes, Crocodile Dilemma for reinforcement or reassurance, Paradox of material implication,   The use of Paradox of material implication as the rhetorical device for absolution,  Enthymeme, Political literature & Affronted assertion 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.

{‘A fool can tell the truth’ as Samuel Butler says, ‘but it requires a man of sense to know how to tell a lie.’ I conclude, therefore, that every politician is a man of sense and every man of integrity is a fool. I conclude this because I am a man of sense and know…..}

{I can only believe that love is blind if you show me a career-orientated girl in love of a poor blind man.}

Quotable Quotes

·        Politician can not fool all people all the time; but he can always fool enough number of people to win an election.

·        A leader having failed to deliver is a true leader, if succeeds once again to be a dealer in hope.

·        Leaders deem it important to thank their people for their patience as people living by bread alone need buttering up once in a while.

·        Politician takes office with a magic wand at his command, and concludes at the conclusion of his term that he needs another term to wave it.

·        Politicians are always given to soul-searching; therefore they never hesitate to love to hate the things they hated to love.

·        Political marking practitioners give coverage to all speeches of opponents but not to all speech; they reproduce original in a fragmentary way so to distract attention from integrating themes and speech is simply reduced to vapid vacuousness.

Crocodile Dilemma for reinforcement or reassurance. 

“The crocodile Dilemma is an unsolvable problem in logic”. 

Example:

A:      If you rightly predict; I will return your money.

B:      You will not return my money.

A:      Your prediction is right.

(If prediction turns out to be right, A is not supposed to return money; but he said that he would in case prediction was right.)

The use of Crocodile Dilemma in politics creates funny Justification; however there can a good receptivity among illiterate stalwarts.

‘Our failure to deliver is a mark of respect’, thundered a leader, ‘we just wanted the prediction of our people to go right.’

Paradox of material implication.

·     Statement that is deceptively similar to ‘logically follows’ though fail at a subtle level to capture the meaning of ‘If…then’. The paradox arises because of the truth-functional role of a statement that is true merely because consequent is true because the antecedent is false.  

 The use of Paradox of material implication as the rhetorical device for absolution. 

·        ‘People condemn the beloved leader of yours for the corruption in the recent construction projects. If the foundation of buildings we constructed were of salt; all buildings would cave in during rain. You are the witness that our buildings withstood deluge.’

Enthymeme 

Enthymeme for propaganda

·        “Enthymemes keep at least one of the premises or conclusion unsaid. The assertion left unsaid is intended to be so obvious as to not need stating”.  Depleting the argument of its logical force or even sanity is the art and enthymeme is the useful tool. Political Marketing consultant reproduces the original statement and keeps at least one of the premises  unsaid; but the assertion left unsaid is intended to be not obvious as to not need stating  and consequently statement fails to guarantee the truth of its conclusion based on the truth of its premises. The failure of readers to fill the gaps between the statements (because of holes) is the success of political marketing practitioner to tie the author of words with vagueness or absurdity. 

Political literature

·        ‘Sensitive spots in the nature of a forcible writer create certain predilections which mark out the channels of ideas and fashion his imagery. Magic of nature felt in luminous or perhaps forgotten hours recur in writings; experience of vivid moments haunt’, give him an impulse, metaphors are created to crystallize what goes on in his mind and finally he is prodded into externalization: subjective impressions are objectified. Literature produced for the propaganda is robbed of sublimity because it is not produced by the joys or sorrows which touched vigorously the string and admiration and sensitivity of the gifts of a writer.

·        A letter writer if by definition is not to be self-conscious, so anyone, no matter how prolific, if sustains studied mannerism should not called a writer as things produced are not produced for cathartic experience.

Affronted assertion  

·       The endorsement of ‘punishment according to crime not circumstances’ threatens humans with relegation to the role of a machine; punishment according to a crime can not correspond to a crime; computer can not extract the meaning of ordinary sentences as it does not have the contextual information humans rely on for making sense.