Paradox: Silence Is Fundamental To Communication, Syntactic Ambiguity, How Religions Are Diluted, Catch 22 In Politics, Quotable Quotes, Post Hoc Ergo & Logical Absurdity

Paradox: Silence Is Fundamental To Communication, Syntactic Ambiguity, How Religions Are Diluted, Catch 22 In Politics, Quotable Quotes, Post Hoc Ergo & Logical Absurdity 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.

Paradox: silence is fundamental to communication    

“This is a common enough observation in music and poetry, where beauty and effect are most perfectly attained in the moment of silence. In music it may simply be clearer that silence demarcates the boundaries of all sounds. Interruption and alteration distinguish tone, pitch, and rhythm, bringing the art of Muses to the ear and mind. Silence is not simply the space between sounds. It is the spatial and symbolic dimension that makes them audible. The relationship between speech and silence, ambiguity and suspicion, is often felt intuitively in political language. The really important conversation is never heard. It takes place behind closed doors, in the silent corridors of power, or in the nods and feints of smoke-filled rooms. The real meaning_ the truth__ lies elsewhere: in what is not spoken; what is suppressed in the defendant’s testimony or the politician’s position paper and press release; the classified document rather than the published, censored version; the sullen shrug or lie rather than the sworn statement; the silent woman in traditional culture”.

Syntactic ambiguity

(In arguments the first premise semantically does not predicate an attribute of the subject; however, arguments do have the appearance of inference that applies transitivity of the two-placed relations: a valid property so to create by equating two incompatible claims syntactic ambiguity.)

·        You may hear people saying nothing is better than education, but as everyone knows that eating something is better than eating nothing; therefore, something is always better than education.

How religions are diluted

·        The process of conversion is seldom, if ever, a clean break with the past. Religion though wins a new adherent, convert tends to find in both (the one he has relinquished for embracement of other) a new and common framework. Ideology is diluted with every new addition of hybrid.

Catch 22 in politics 

·        It is true that energy prices were constantly on upward spiral during my tenure, but it is also true that as long as we do not have sophisticated system that guarantees protection against theft; prices will continue to rise. We failed to have that system because the money my government had to give in subsidy to cushion the effects of the rise in prices could not be channeled into developing the system because if it happened, people would not absorb the rise.

·        Economists condemn your beloved leader for borrowing loan from IMF and suggest instead the increase in export. But unless we innovate our share in international market continues to shrink and our industry will not innovate unless it gets a huge order from international market. I had no choice than to inject a massive dose with the help of IMF.

·        Favoritism as people mistakenly think was an attempt to attract foreign investment. We wanted our international friends to help build a network of bridges and road, however, creating a network was not viable until there were enough vehicles to create the demand, therefore, to create demand we distributed thousands of vehicles to our people.

·        An acute sense of fear had engulfed a whole country when I assumed office. Shoppers were not spending as they were not feeling secure and businesses were not hiring because people were not spending, my government decided for people to go profligate. 

Quotable Quotes

·        Defending loudly a wrong position is just like arranging a wide screen only to make a bad film twice as bad.

·        ‘A rolling stone gathers no moss, but the rolling stone does not care. Momentum is what it wants to gather’. Activities are of no use if they become end in themselves. A consummate warrior proves by not committing himself to a battle that ‘a barking dog is better than a sleeping lion’

Post hoc ergo

(Rhetorical pattern to obscure fallacy)

·        I am condemned for not promoting education in my constituency. It is better for me to be against education than to be disloyal to my people. Research has proven that as more and more young people attend high schools and colleges, there is more and more juvenile delinquency and alienation among the young. Bless me as I am the blessing.

Logical absurdity

·         If we hear the love when it arrives on tiptoe, there will be no banging of the door when it leaves.