Text Writes Author, Quotable Quotes, Observing From Without And With In, Semantic Fallacy, Tenuous Peace, Correlation Is Not Causation, Hedonism, Genetic Fallacy, Allusiveness Of Language, Argument From Authority & Cynical Notion

Text Writes Author, Quotable Quotes, Observing From Without And With In, Semantic Fallacy, Tenuous Peace, Correlation Is Not Causation, Hedonism, Genetic Fallacy, Allusiveness Of Language, Argument From Authority & Cynical Notion 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.

Text writes author

 This is not to say that author is autonomous because riddling prose with clichés or infecting it with commonplace banalities reveals author to be mere products of politically embedded discursive practices. Author is “a scripter, a word that is barbarously technical (or common with no special application), but has the merit of cutting through the neo-romantic eloquence which has divinized the author as a creator”

Quotable Quotes

·        Seclusions  is unjustifiable even on the religious grounds as we need others to understand ourselves; a hermit can not understand himself but if others have made him understand that for him life in seclusions is worth living for so he may no longer have others to understand himself.

·        Disinterested exploration of reality is impossible as every philosopher is human being enmeshed in a web of personal and social circumstances.

·        A love marriage has the inevitability of tragic ending if lovers ‘love merely each other not many things together’

·        ‘Love is the noblest frailty of the mind’ as it enables us to temper justice with mercy.

·        Apartheid is the scourge of humanity, but to me the more loathsome is the gap between haves and have nots so wide that life for many becomes a progress from want to want and for many enjoyment to enjoyment.

Observing from without and with in

·        A piece of writing that constructs a blithely imaginative world offers ‘life as spectacle’ and  readers do not need to identify with character as they have to in reading a piece of writing that presents ‘life as experience’. Readers observe life as spectacle from without and move into the realms of fantasy. Life as experience has to be observed from within and that places readers firmly within the domain of a real life.

·        Observing a story from without makes story hardly indistinguishable from a joke. People listen and enjoy a joke; but observing a story from with in makes a reader feel the very stupidity that produces a joke.

Semantic Fallacy

{Application of two different meanings of a word to have intended meanings.}

·       My opponent claims, on the one hand, to be innocent and on the other, claims to know the seamy side of my character. One ceases to be innocent the day he acquires the capability of judging depravity.                                                                                    

Tenuous peace

·       Peace imposed through brute force is always tenuous. Sagas of carnage though cease to endure; but old animus continues to simmer beneath, guaranteeing that there will soon be no shortage of atavistic violence.  

Correlation is not causation

{Correlation is causation if examination of multiple independent correlations lead to the same causal relations; however, such examination does not usually occur, therefore, political marketing consultant constructs a third variable or hypothesis to invoke: correlation is not causation}

·        In a broader context, we can understand that the recent rise in the prices of commodities in our country is the logical consequence of the international oil politics.

Hedonism

·       Hedonism is the belief that unbridled gratification is always better than the straitjacket religion tailors for savoring pleasure.

Genetic Fallacy

{A word used by opponent may be entirely unrelated to its etymological origins but political marketing practitioner criticizes by developing the assumption that current application is dictated and constrained by its historical utility}.

·        The word ‘crusade’ used by President Bush unveils the real intentions of attacking Iraq.

Allusiveness of language

·        No language is a perfect vehicle. Inherent allusiveness of a language calls forth misunderstandings in every day conversation, and consequently a word is to be modified to communicate intended meaning. Literal language of science can not be precise; it can only be more precise than the figurative language of fiction. 

Argument from authority(assuming the authority of the masses)

{Broader consensus can not be wrong and a belief must be true because as it is popular}

·        Our customs and traditions are sanctioned by collective judgments; institutionalized and legitimized by ages. People have lived and will continue to live with peace and prosperity “the privileges of life” as long as they continue to reinforce me: a bulwark against democracy.

{Assessment of a claim and then rejecting it because of the experience of a person.}

·        You can not know the taste of anything unless you taste it. Slaves have no right to say freedom is better as they have tasted only slavery.

{This argument emphasizes the many years of experience and the formal degree; but these both can be ignored by denigrating experience and casting doubts on the ranking of university.}

Cynical notion: Politics is all talk

“Scholar in communications, rhetoric, critical philosophy, discourse analysis, semiology, are all sympathetic to the notion that political society is constituted by language. Personal identity, relations of power, class structure, and social institutions are regarded as expressions or communicative mediations in the grammar of social life. In short, political behavior depends upon knowing the language: competency in discursive practices exercised in the accepted vocabulary of power hierarchies contradict cynical notion that “Politics is all talk, implying all talk and no action”