Archive for Analysis

From the British Tabloids- ‘Girl crushed by tree during teacher strike’

From the British Tabloids- ‘Girl crushed by tree during teacher strike’

July 16, 2011 No Comments

Girl crushed by tree during teacher strike http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/8610392/13-year-old-girl-crushed-by-tree-during-teacher-strike.html, published 01 Jul 2011, last verified 7/16/2011 Girl crushed to death by a falling branch as she sat on park bench on the day her…

Basic Statistical Mistakes

Basic Statistical Mistakes

June 24, 2011 No Comments

I’m reading ‘In the Basement of the Ivory Tower’ by the pseudonymous ‘Professor X,’ who teaches English 101 and 102 as an adjunct at two unnamed colleges in the North East – one a…

Freud on Robert’s Dream Theory

Freud on Robert’s Dream Theory

March 6, 2011 No Comments

In The Interpretation of Dreams, Ch V (p. 210-211 of the Avon edition, Strachey translation, Freud argues: And there is another objection that can be raised to Robert’s theory. If it were really the business of dreams to relieve our memory of the ‘dregs’ or daytime recollections by a special psychical activity, our sleep would be more tormented and harder worked than our mental life while we are awake. For the number of indifferent impressions from which our memory would need to be protected is clearly immensely large: the night would not be long enough to cope with such a mass. It is far more likely that the process of forgetting indifferent impressions goes forward without the active intervention of our psychical forces.

Quasi-Freudian Analysis of Father-hating Atheists and “anti-democratic” “classic tyrant” Barack Obama

Quasi-Freudian Analysis of Father-hating Atheists and “anti-democratic” “classic tyrant” Barack Obama

August 8, 2010 1 Comment

Analysis of Paul Vitz’s psychoanalytic argument against Obama: Are the Sins of the Fatherless the Root of Obama’s Tyranny? Does Obama’s anti-democratic ideology result from his dysfunctional childhood? An intriguing book, Faith of the Fatherless: The Psychology of Atheism, by Paul Vitz, argues this type background is a common precursor to the classic tyrant’s personality. This suggests Barack’s beef with America might result from his own deficient past.

Simple Truth Table – XOR

A simple interactive truth table for the exclusive or: either or and not both, or 'X-Or'. The symbol, as...

Simple Truth Table – Peirce Stroke

A simple interactive truth table for the Peirce stroke, or 'Not-Or'.

Simple Truth Table – Sheffer Stroke

A simple interactive truth table for the Sheffer stroke, or 'Not-And'.

Truth Table for Dilemma

A simple interactive truth table for proving the validity of the Dilemma.

Truth Tables for Fallacious Disjunctive Syllogism

A simple interactive truth table for proving the invalidity of the two different fallacious forms of argumentation that look...

Truth Tables for Disjunctive Syllogism

A simple interactive truth table for proving the validity of the two different forms of Disjunctive Syllogism:

Truth Table for Hypothetical Syllogism

A simple interactive truth table for proving the validity of Hypothetical Syllogism

Simple Truth Table – Biconditional

A simple interactive truth table for conjunction. Click ‘start’, then click...

Simple Truth Table – Conditional

A simple interactive truth table for conjunction. Click ‘start’, then click...

Simple Truth Table – Disjunction

A simple interactive truth table for conjunction. Click ‘start’, then click...

Simple Truth Table – Conjunction

A simple interactive truth table for conjunction. Click ‘start’, then click...

Simple Truth Table – Negation

A simple interactive truth table for negation.

Truth Table for Affirming the Consequent

A simple interactive truth table for proving the validity of Affirming the Consequent

Truth Table for Denying the Antecedent

A simple interactive truth table for proving the validity of Denying The Antecedent