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Logical reasoning is all the worse and all the good

By Prof  Dr. Sohail Ansari Allah does not burden a soul beyond that it can bear – Surah Baqarah – V 286 A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person . Mignon McLaughlin Logical reasoning is worse if it stops….    ·         Logical reasoning is all the worse for the things beyond experience and all the good within the confines of science. It is worse because it stops the search for the ultimate reality of things those are real in themselves. It is good because it never stops the search for the things within the domain of senses.     Culture is the antithesis    ·         ‘To western man, culture is the antithesis of nature; it implies the subjugation of nature in order to build a technological, man-made world in order to establish civilization’. It could be explained in other way as well. Nature is to be unfettered so that West can practice hedonism as the philosophy to satiate licentiousness: the absolute gratification with no mora

A gap between the reader and text’s assumption

If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way ‘ False accusation is worse than backbiting. It is to falsely attribute a deficiency or an offence to a believing person. It is certain that this transgression is the most wicked of attacks upon the prestige of a believer. A shrewd writer constructs a shield   ·         If there is always a gap between the reader and the text’s assumptions, there is always an opportunity to make readers accept specific assumption. The best defense of a writer, if he is pulled apart for selling unacceptable assumption, is that readers have picked unintended meanings. ·         If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way. Mark Twain ·         There are some things that can beat smartness and foresight? Awkwardness and stupidity can. The best swordsman in the world doesn't need to fear the second best swordsman in the world; no, the person for him to be afraid of is some i

What qualifies one as a revisionist?

Exercise for the students of SBBU ‘What everybody echoes or in silence passes by   as   true to-day may turn out to be falsehood to-morrow, mere smoke of opinion, which some had trusted for a cloud that would sprinkle fertilizing rain on their fields’. Tinkering beyond peripheries makes one orthodox’s bête noire   ·         Preoccupation with the fundamental aspects of a theory is in itself sufficient to qualify a philosopher as revisionist as far those on the side of orthodoxy they are established realties beyond discussion. It is all the use of either It is all the use of either; just master it and have the answer you wish to have: ·         Either I am not false or 1=0 ·         Either you follow me or you follow devil. Students must come up with the examples of their own to demonstrate the mastery of the use of either…or Read the use of difficult words below and use them in the sentence of your own False accusation is worse than backbiting. It is

Conscious omission

By Prof   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 Lie is always in a truth ·        Statue is always in a stone; one just needs to chip away certain pieces. Lie is always in a truth and appears just be the conscious omission of aspects of the truth relevant in the particular context.    Quotes ·        ‘ If we know already that roses are with thorns, neither we would be grateful that thorns bear flowers nor complain that roses have thorns. ·         We take others apart for the fault a part of our being because we judge ourselves by our ideals; others by their act.