Too true to be true, Intelligence is not.., Cognitive issonance, Hidden assumption, Fallacy

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 words different from different are believed to be exceptionally intelligent. Intelligent does not allow itself to be wasted; intelligence is its own best protector, it enables its possessor (intelligent man) to know where to apply it. Search is futile is findings are of no use; one may succeed to find another bread but this success is of no use as the bread one already had is sufficient to satisfy his hunger; similarly a word ‘different’ and a word ‘similar’ are sufficient for communication.          

Political marketing through cognitive dissonance    

·       People cannot tolerate inconsistency, therefore, when confronted with the endorsement of a product, or a person by the people they adore (religious leaders or philosophers); they are forced to either hate the people they love to love or love the product or a person they hate to love. Political marketing consultant knows that people desire to be consistent; therefore he taps this desire to garner support for a candidate, an idea or a product he knows he would not have otherwise without the support of persons people admire.        

Political Marketing through hidden assumption   

·        Argument acquires a spurious validity through the lack of a premise, for example, ‘only prime minister is authorized to sign this deal, therefore someone must have forged his signature’. Hidden assumption: prime minister cannot sign and that shows a fault in reasoning if highlighted.

Fallacy   

·       If a half truth is a deceptive statement; so a statement is deceptive statement of a half truth.

A half truth is a deceptive statement; therefore, every deceptive statement is a half truth.