Thursday, September 4, 2008

Rojak...

The Mariah Carey concert was on 10 August.
If I bought a ticket for Mariah Carey concert , I would go to stadium menara .
I haven’t bought a ticket for Mariah Carey's concert.
Therefore , I didn’t go stadium menara .
(Denying the antecedent)

Last week was Macroeconomic class.
Iqbal said the Malaysian economy is growing very fast
Farid : I don’t think he has credibility to talk about economy.He didn’t attended even to one of his economy classes and has never done any assignment or read an article about it.
(ad hominom circumstantial)

Farid : I think Alan is a good student and really pays attention in class.
Med : I don't think so because i heard he takes drugs and i don't like the way of his dressing he is totally a punk.
(ad hominom abusive)

If Mr.Nizam doesn't help me on the course I will fail.If i fail i have to retake this subject again and i have to pay money again so i won't have enough sources to buy clothes and food and i will die from hunger with old torn clothes.
(ad populum appeal to indirect consequences(domino effect))

I was watching Malaysian football league and they didn’t play good at all so I can conclude they will never play good football at all.
(Argumentum a silentio)

Fernando Torres is the best goal striker in the English Premiership.
(Objective Statement)

English College




I'm from a sencondary school in Johor Bahru named Maktab Sultan Abu Bakar or well known as English College.
After form 5 all ex-students are required to register their name to the ECESA (English College Ex-students Association).
It's compulsory since it is done by our seniors.
Before becoming a prefect in English College, you have to attend a 3 night camp.It's is being lead by the senior prefects.We have to do things a they say.They will test you and train you to become the school's prefect.
Every year since the opening of the school,they did the night camp for new prefects.
Ad Popullum Appeals To Tradition

Mother Texting


My mother send me sms this morning. The message wrote like this "Son, are you coming home this weekend? Do you know you're cousin's birthday on this saturday and how could you even think of refusing to come and join the dinner with family?
From this text i could analyze it is a
Leading Question.

Alone At Home



when i go home sometimes, I am alone.
By that I mean none of my housemates are in the house and sometimes they both are inside so I am not alone.

If they are not inside they are outside.

They are outside

Therefore, they are not inside.

The above argument may be valid, but only if the claim "if he's outside, then he's not inside" follows from the first premise. Even in such a case, however, the validity stems not from affirming the consequent, but from the form modus ponens.

Jessica Alba!!!


I was packing some stuff and suddenly i saw this magazine.
After seeing Jessica Alba on the front cover i opened it a read the article about her.
So i'm thinkin of using Petito Prinicipii to analyze this statement.
The magazine had written down there and said,
JESSICA ALBA - THE BODY EVERYONE WANTS.
I was wondering, who is the everyone that the
magazine had been pointed out.Maybe not everyone wants Jessica Alba,
people can have Jessica simpson's body also, right?
So, the magazine has no reason to say that everbody
wants Jessica Alba's body.

Malaysian Politics



Last week went Anwar Ibrahim won the Permatang Pauh seat it was no suprise to me because it him his fotress.2 days after he won he went to take an owth.Then he became the leader of the opposition party.

I went to go and meet Fit to have lunch together.Then we talked about the future of Malaysian Politics.

Here goes our conversation:


Me : Fit,so Anwar has win the Permatang Pauh seat.So how?


Fit : Emmm to tell u the truth i think Anwar will succeed with his plans to build a new goverment by 16 september.


Me: Huh? How is he going to do that? Doesnt it take more that 50% or parliment seat to built a new goverment?


Fit : Yes ofcourse.Sabah and Sarawak Mp's from Barisan Nasional are going to jump ship.I mean change to be in PKR.


Me : Really!!! Woaahhh...


Fit : Yeah2.Then he will become our 6th Prime Minister of Malaysia.And the 7th you know who.Hahahah


Me : yeah i do.Khairy Jamaluddin.hahhaha


From this conversation after i analyze it we just made an Indirect Consequences.





Hate When This Happens

I remembered i sprained my leg during playing futsal. The doctor put cement on my leg and i have to sit on a wheel chair, therefore it has been very boring staying alone in the house and being unable to move around. But today, my parents are coming to bring me home. I felt so happy that i could go home today and no longer need to be bored staying alone in the apartment when my house-mates go to class. I realized that in this process, i went through the three levels of feelings, sensations-emotions-interpretations.

In the 1st level, my parents told me that they are coming to fetch me.

2nd level, i feel happy and in the

last level, i don't have to feel bored anymore because i'm going back to my home sweet home.

Apologize Lyrics

I love to hear a song “Apologize” from One Republic feat Timbaland. It is a nice song from the lyric itself and also the melody of the song.


There are parts of the lyric that I think related to critical thinking (again..hehehe) Here they are:



I'd take another chane, take the fall,
Take a shot for you
And I need you like a heart needs a beat
But it's nothing new
I loved you with a fire red-Now it's turning blue,
And you say..."Sorry" like the angel heaven let me think was you
but I'm afraid...
It's too late to apologize, it's too late
I said it's too late to apologize, it's too late”



ANALYZE:

“I'd take another chance, take a fall
Take a shot for you
My assumption for this lyric is he would do everything for the girl whom he loves and he wants the girl be his girlfriend, his love.
He would make any sacrifice to get her love.

And I need you like a heart needs a beat
But it's nothing new
This is a Simile. There’s a comparative qualifier “like”.He really needs the girl for his life. It sounds he can not live without her. (Assumption)

I loved you with a fire red-Now it's turning blue
It is a metaphor. He loves her very much (fire red), really lover her.But then, he doesn’t love her anymore (turning blue), I’m sure there are reasons why he doesn’t love her anymore.

And you say..."Sorry" like the angel heaven let me think was you
It is a Simile. He describes the girl says Sorry like angel.I think the girl tries to say Sorry from the bottom of her heart. She knows that she’s wrong. That is my assumption.

but I'm afraid...
It's too late to apologize, it's too late
I said it's too late to apologize, it's too late..
Assumption : He wants to tell the girl if he’s really sick because of what she has done to him. He doesn’t want her come into his heart or life again even she tries to say sorry. It is too late for her to fix all the bad things that have happened to both of them which make their relationship broke up.

Evian

Here's an interesting ads of Evian Water I found in Google:



This ads stated that:
Get skin so goodYou want to show it off
74% of people drinking an extra liter of Evian pure natural mineral water per
day notice their skin looking smoother, more hydrated, and as a result visibly
younger

The objective of this ads actually is to convince people to purchase the Evian Mineral Water advertised, so the unstated conclusion of this ad that we should buy and drink Evian brand mineral water...

The premise is, if you drink Evian Mineral water, your skin will look better, assuming that eveyone likes better-looking skin. However, what we realy see in the conclusion that our skin will look better only if we drink evian.

Probably, we could get our skin smoother and more hydronated by drinking any brand of mineral water, not only Evian! Or, probably again, non mineral water like old tap water, will also can make the same effect. Even fluids will likely works, such as fruit juices and milk. In other words, drink an extra liter of water or just extra fluids and you will get better looking skin, more hydrated, and visibly younger!

In contrast, suppose that drinking were a necessary condition for smoother skin, then we would just have to go out and buy Evian. Fortunately, the ad doesn't give us a good reason to buy an expensive mineral water, rather than just drinking more of the drink we want!

Men-Women-Cheating!

I chatted with my buddy this night,, we talked about many things, until we come up with a new topic about boys n girls cheating habit, hahaha..



Many people said that Men cheat more than women... But he really didn't agree with that statement...



Amir : "Actually the percentage of Men and Women cheating are the same, 50:50."



Me :"Humm, are you sure, Amir?? "How did you get that statistical data?? Hehe..."



Amir :"The number of Boys and Girls whom cheating with his or her couples, I have seen so far are same. I looked at my friends in campus, women cheat a lot! I have been the victim too, haha,"

He also argued that many people think that men are cheat more than women because they are likely to get caught and women hide it better,,,


Thank you for my Critical Thinking subject that i take this semester, i didn't accept his statement easily, because Amir has just made an invalid argument.


Why it is invalid?



Because the conclusion arrived from the facts that are not 100% guaranteed true, because that sample does not consist of all possible evidence.
It involves an incomplete sample. Because of this the conclusion became follow probably from the premise.
And also the quality of the data or sample he has is not qualified enough to draw the inference that the number of women and men cheating are same.
And his statement that many people think that men are cheat more than women because they are likely to get caught and women hide it better are causal argument that makes his statement become inductive reasoning.

Boo Hoo Hoo!!!


Last night me and the friends were just talking and the subject of fears came up up, and when it came to my turn I told them..


" I don't go into abandoned houses or old houses, I really don't have a reason, but I've been frightened in places like them before, now i just simply stay clear of them.


"If this was to be applied to Critical Thinking, it would be my Episodic Knowledge working, because my memory at that moment remembered an event i once experienced, causing my decision.


Iwan, one of my friends, says her fear is clowns, like circus clowns. He always refuses to go near them when the circus is in town because she once watched a horror movie as a child where the clown killed little boy/girls. His fear is also based on her Episodic Knowledge.


I bet your fear is too!!!

Unknown Biograpy


This is Sam, short for Samantha Griffin with her adorable son James. They where going for a stroll in the park when it happened, Sam couldn't even get the words out of her mouth, she was just too astonished that something like that could happen in broad day light, infront of their innocent children's eyes....


Sam and James day started their day normally, took daddy, Peter to work then did some grocery's for the day. Sam prefers to go shopping for veges and other consumables daily,because she thinks then her family is eating fresh food, she truly believes this even though her husband told her the shop doesn't restock everyday. After making lunch for her and James, just like any other day they went to the park for a walk, but as you can see James doesn't do much walking, he sightsees!


Then it happened, right there infront of them, a fat, slobish, horribly disgustingly overweight man, decided to take of his shirt and jiggle around. people stopped to stare, some laughed, but others like Sam thought it was disgusting and scary for their children to see. Sam hurried back home and was in an awful mood for the rest of the day.When Peter came home that day, all she could talk about was the obscene thing that happened at the park that day.


This is an Unknown Biography of Samantha Griffin, age 29, housewife, raised in California, U.S.A.Married to Peter Griffin, and has one son James whom she adores, and at the moment this picture was taken, wishes he hadn't been exposed to such horridness.

Tu Quoque Fallacy

This morning one of Eeka's house mates called them into her room to give us a lecture about cleanliness. she went on and on about how they never clean the house properly and that she can't live in a dirty house, but they argued that she's one to talk, she cant even keep her own bedroom clean, its filthy!! And she says they can't clean!!


As you can see as they ended up accusing her house mate of the same trait she was trying to accuse us of. this is called Tu Quoque Fallacy used in everyday life arguments.

Thank You For Smoking


This is one of my favourite movie.
its about a company that sells Tobacco,Weapons n Alcohol.
The goverment wants to shut off their business.
We can relate it to BCT with this statement:
Merchants of Death (MOD)
They sell Tobacco, Weapons, Alcohol
Cars and cigarettes both cause thousands of deaths.

Thus, if cigarettes are regulated, so too should cars.

But cars should not be regulated.

Therefore cigarettes should not be regulated either.

Euphemism

I heard this conversation between a person and her cousin during lunch with my friends last week

Zyk :Hey uncle!how are you?long time did not see u.

Uncle :Hey zyk.I'm fine.how are you and your boyfriend?(rolling his eyes).

Zyk :We are good, uncle.

Uncle :How's your boyfriend?the last time we met u said he's out of a job.Is he working already?

Zyk :Ya.Alhamdulillah currently he is working with Standard Chartered Bank in Kuala Lumpur.

Uncle :That's good for both of u.The sooner u guys will get married..(teasing her)

Zyk :InsyaAllah uncle.Right now just concentrating on my studies first.Ok uncle,i got to go now.see u later.take care.send my regards to auntie,and kak zeera.

Uncle :I will.U take care too dear.

The above conversation,her uncle was using "Euphemism" to make it sound better rather than saying her boyfriend was 'unemployed' he used 'out of a job'.

Sunway Piramid




Later today,i went to Sunway Pyramid to search a birthday present for my brother.
I asked my sister to accompany me and she refused saying that "for the past few days,it has been raining heavily,i'm sure it will rain heavily today.
In this situation,she was applying the "Hasty Generalization" as she do not have enough instances which she conclude that the condition will exist and happen again.

Freewriting

Finally,tonight i did not know what to do..while resting,what else can i write in this BCT blog..
let me think,..hHmmmMm..Since i really do not know what to write,better for me to do "Freewriting" so i can use the freewriting idea later to generate new idea or solving my problems.
Let me close my eyes for a seconds and try to write down as many words as i can that i am thinking of..

SleEpY..MoNEY..blank..daa..daa..blank...

graduation..topshop..street kings..keAnu REaves..daa..

blank..lalllalla...assignments...exams..

blank..ItaLiaNnies..KUching..Sarawak...ShoPping...gRaduate...

HappY..SmiLing..JOb..JoBss!!!

STOP!!time's up!..I hope this assignment will contribute as many marks as possible!!

Indecisive

A group of friends of mine is organizing a party. It is some sort like (by using the phrase “some sort like”, I make the statement seems less significant. This is an example of me using “prejudicial-language” - down-player, to attempt to persuade others) a farewell party since this is the final semester. However, I can’t seem to decide of going or not because I am short on cash and I have other plans. So I made a pact with a friend, named Lola saying that “I’ll go if you go” (Here, I can apply the deductive reasoning of hypothetical syllogism).

1) Modus ponens (Affirming the antecedent) - Valid
If Lola’s going, then I’ll goLola’s going, so I’ll go.

2) Modus tollens (Denying the consequent) - Valid
If Lola’s going, then I’ll goLola’s not going, so I will not go.

3) Affirming the consequent - Invalid
If Lola’s going, then I’ll goI’ll go, therefore Lola’s going.

4) Denying the antecedent - Invalid
If Lola’s going, then I’ll goI will not go, therefore Lola’s not going.

To go or not to go. That is the question now.

Nahh. I don't want to burden my brain thinking about partying when i have loads of other stuffs to be worried about like assignments, reports, presentations and final exam.Wish me luck people! ;)

Vantange Point




I watched a movie recently – Vantage Point. The movie starring Dennis Quaid, Matthew Fox, Forest Whitaker, Sigourney Weaver and William Hurt.


For me, the movie was great! The story line and the way they presented the movie captured my interest because it was different. It captures one event from eight different perspectives. So each time the story rewinds, I get a few more pieces of the puzzle. Watching a story unfold in a series of surprises and have twists in it is a lot of fun! But I just don’t like the ending!! It’s a typical Hollywood movie where the hero is a one man hero! Plus, the American always wins! *rolling eyes* How could a man left without any serious injuries after going through bombing, series of chasing scenes and involved in car accidents. The ending for me was quite disappointing. So, I’m going to apply re-writing the ending as I’ve learned in critical thinking class. I will give “Vantage-Point” a sadder ending ;)


When the terrorists kidnapped the President of the United States, the president died in the accident and Dennis Quaid (who plays as a secret service responsible for the President’s safety) cannot forgive himself for not protecting the President. So, he exiles himself into asylum in a rural area and become a carpenter.

Starbucks




As I am doing my critical thinking assignment II, I suddenly recall a conversation that I had with my friend in Starbucks Cafe this afternoon. We start our conversation when he saw a guy with funny looking hair style and here it goes.

(myself: Kodel , my friend: Nick)


Nick : hey Kodel, you see, you see. You see that guy with funny hairstyle?


Kodel : yes?


Nick : He really looks very 'good' with that hairstyle. I think he better makes it bald.


Nick was trying inappropriate use of Prejudicial Qualifiers.

Bear


Description of what was happening just before:
This guy is wearing a hat. He is looking at a bear in a Zoo. He cold be a Zoo Keeper, Zoologist or even just a spectator (public people) coming to the Zoo.

Description of what just happens after:
He later gave the bear some fruits to eat. He looks very expert in feeding the bear. So he cannot be a spectator then.
Description of what just happens as the picture was taken:
This guy in a hat is a Zoologist expertise in bears. He only pays attention to bears and its habitats. He is very good in contacting with bears around him.