Dr Sohail Ansari

Enhancing theory for practice 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. ·        Ideology that arises from the breakdown of rational discourse is counterfeit rationality that is fraudulent discourse to conceal the breakdown of rationality.    Enhancing theory for practice or practice for theory.  ·         Scholars are either devoted to enhancing the value of theory for practice or devoted to urge followers to enhance the practice for theory. Doing one at the expense of other has its own consequences. Theory grows more open as it grows easier to follow or more comprehensive as it grows more relevant to aspects of life or more elaborate as it grows relevant to more aspects of life. Enhancing the value of theory for practice is an activity that is good in itself; however i

Liar paradox 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. (He is so intelligent that he can do everything; for example, he can create such a puzzle that he cannot solve himself) ·        A: line below is true. B: Line above is false. ·        A: line below is false. B: line above is true.   ·        E1: E2 is false. E2: E3 is false. E3: E1 is false. Which of the above line is true then? Liar paradox: paradox of our own making  ·         ‘‘The oldest known version of the liar paradox is attributed to the Greek philosopher who reportedly asked, ‘A man says that he is lying. Is what he says true or false?’. The paradox was once discussed by St. Jerome in a sermon: ‘I said in my alarm, every man is a liar! (Psalm.116:11) Is David telling the truth or is he lyi

Totemism, Fallacy, political marketing through theory. 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. ·        Elections create the illusion of choice; people reject candidates by substituting superficially different candidates. ·        One has blind following if the followers of his accept his opinion as their own.     Political marketing through Totemism  ·         In primitive societies, totems were representation of animals or other natural objects identified with particular subgroups, such as clan. Political marketing consultant applies this concept to politics; symbols constitute a code, a system of political meanings. Traditional totemism constructs a vast and dynamic scheme of thought by its systematic arrangement of meaningful differences in representation of natu

Believing without listening, Epistemic defectiveness defines propaganda, points to ponder. 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. ·        Good slogan is the striking phrase that acts only as emotional appeals but appears to be supporting reasoned ideas; and a subtle slogan is the striking phrase that includes stereotyping but appears to be excluding it. Believing without listening ·         Credit of lifting the censorship of Iraqi media after removing Saddam obviously went to USA. This lifting interestingly was used to lift the image of voice of America and to damage the credibility of indigenous means of communication: ‘because of lifting the censorship of the Iraqi media, truthful information of the voice of America is in a high degree of competition with the op

Marketing is the host, Political advertising is conductor, political marketing through door in the face, PT Barnum effect, points to ponder   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. ·        The arguments that persuading information is biased are not wrong if information aims at persuading people to do wrong things. ·        Propaganda is propagandizing without the express aim of it.  ‘Marketing is the host and advertising is the master of ceremonies’ but political marketing is both ·         Political marketing is a pie, inside that there are slices of political advertising, media planning (that ensures Meta campaign, and management of news coverage), public relations, and debates and many more things. Political marketing prepares its product (idea or politician) fo

Propaganda by distribution, Reductio ad Hitlerum, Classical condoning.    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. Propaganda by distribution ·         Biased treatment to information makes information propaganda. Propaganda is in varying degree distinguishable from news. The rejection of information as propaganda varies; it is determined by the degree propaganda is distinct from information. All propaganda is not accepted nor is all rejected. The news is departure from normal and there can either be too much or too little to report on. Country ( Bête noire of west) even serves as a minor source of news; but is a major target of propaganda, thus appears bigger evil than it is because much after rejection much is still remaining to be accepted.                   Pol

Contemporaries of theme, Ideological disputes, Literalization of metaphor, Political marketing through News and Dilemmas 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 ·        Every success at engineering consent impresses us with the potential of propaganda to manipulate public opinion. Subtle fallacies 1)     Contemporaries of theme ·        Writers are categorized by an era so that readers can learn about all writers exist in a certain period of time; learning about contemporaries of an era is information; not knowledge. Knowledge is knowing the writer or writers those standout; it is knowing that enables one to separate individual from crowd. Era must then be categorized by the themes as each era has one dominant theme; readers can sort out writers not overwhel

Opposite to black is only white, Political marketing through element of truth. 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 ·        Semblance of credibility is created by the emphasis given to a lie. ·        Nearly every brave writer writes on the subject after obtaining people’s thought on it; and every great  individualized work is either simply variation on theme endorsed by society (theme of time) or variation of approved themes. Opposite to black is only white    ·        Ross claims that it is misleading to say that propaganda is simply false, or that it is conditional to a lie, since often the propagandist believes in what he/she is propagandizing. In other words, it is not necessary a lie if the person who created the propaganda is trying to persuade you of a v

Too true to be true, Intelligence is not.., Cognitive issonance, Hidden assumption, 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 ·        An argument uses the connective but it does not connect two events as explanation does through cause and effect. ·        Ownership of the medium and the medium’s funding are two most important filters that determine the type of news that is presented in news media. Too true to be true    ·        ‘If you wish to preserve your secret wrap it up in frankness’; and utter with blatant candidness so that truth is rejected as too true to be true.        Intelligence is not finding words similar to similar and different from different    ·        People engaged in different tasks such as finding words similar to similar and wor

Media sell readers not.., Not everyone is propagandizing. Political marketing through clothing. 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 ·        We are usually in love with the idea of being in love when we believe we are in love. Media sell readers not news    ·        Private media as business sell readers and audiences not news as it is commonly believed to advertisers and collects news by relying primarily on government and propaganda not as commonly believed on reporters.      Not Everyone is propagandizing, nor everything is propaganda   ·         Ross constructed epistemic merit model in response to definitions of propaganda Ross found too narrow. The broad definition of Ross: ‘‘Propaganda is an epistemic struggle to challenge others’ thoughts’’, makes ever