Communication scholar.. a mathematician, Why we fail to hear text, Points to ponder, Fallacy of lurking variable, Fallacy of true conclusion that is not logically guaranteed by the premise, Subtly embedded fallacy, Converse error fallacy, Invalidity with a counterexample with true premises but an obviously false conclusion, Superficially convincing fallacy

Communication scholar.. a mathematician, Why we fail to hear text, Points to ponder, Fallacy of lurking variable, Fallacy of true conclusion that is not logically guaranteed by the premise, Subtly embedded fallacy,  Converse error fallacy, Invalidity with a counterexample with true premises but an obviously false conclusion,  Superficially convincing fallacy  

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.

·       Adversity brings you to many things you do not know about yourself.

·       For branding a reformer as heretic the contribution of his to the revision of theory must be abused than acknowledged.

·       Concepts cannot be misconstrued if the meanings of vocabulary we employ in constructing them are established by their successfully denoting particular things.

Communication scholar should be like a mathematician

·       Real challenge for the effective communication is to negotiate with the sharply different communications’ filter.  Solution is so simple: create message calibrated to each person’s mental filter and crafted to his perception of reality; but the broad-based message that has essentially the same meaning in both the sender and receiver’s mind is simultaneously limited by each human being’s sensory perceptions and not limited by his special reality and for producing it a communication scholar has to be like a mathematician; but his message is not like the sum of math attempted by people of various background to get similar answer ( right answer is only answer) but like the sum of math that is susceptible of various formulas; people of various perceptions decode it; each applies formula of his own choice, each goes through different steps but everyone ends up with the same pre-determined message.  

Why we fail to hear text

·       Satire says that reading is an act of waiting but when we give our self to a text we want because of the sense of immediacy something from the text before the text is ready to give it to us and due to this impatience we miss to pay attention to self that reveals itself in the act of waiting.

Points to ponder

·       Non native speaker knows laws binding language; it is, therefore, easier for him (than a native speaker) to teach language than to apply it; he is more often like a critic who knows how to drive a car but cannot drive as good as a driver does.

·       Producing children lower than rate a population needs to replace itself may not threaten as much the survival of a nation as the failure to ensure that its each child internalize consensual values.  

Fallacy of lurking variable

·       Children those tend to go to ground regularly develop a liking for games and thus become players (fallacy of spurious relationship as the third variable is hidden: players can take their children to ground)

Fallacy of true conclusion that is not logically guaranteed by the premise

·       Intelligent student makes a teacher intelligent; therefore, intelligent student causes a teacher to be intelligent.

Subtly embedded fallacy  

·       This is not true to say that all Muslim love God. I am not a Muslim but I love God.

Converse error fallacy  

·       Mr. A is a great language teacher; if one learns from Mr. A then he can learn much. B has learnt much of a language; therefore he must be a student of Mr. A.

Invalidity with a counterexample with true premises but an obviously false conclusion.   

·       If one has a good house and a car, then he is rich. He is rich; therefore he has a good house and a car.

Superficially convincing fallacy  

·       Pain in legs is because of much walk as people say; I do not walk much but I have pain in my legs.