{"id":4113,"date":"2024-04-22T04:49:58","date_gmt":"2024-04-22T09:49:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/?p=4113"},"modified":"2024-04-22T04:49:58","modified_gmt":"2024-04-22T09:49:58","slug":"there-is-no-crying-in-baseball-and-other-self-contradictions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/2024\/04\/there-is-no-crying-in-baseball-and-other-self-contradictions\/","title":{"rendered":"There Is No Crying in Baseball and Other Self-Contradictions"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">by Dwayne Phillips<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Take caution with negative statements as they often contradict themselves.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;There is no crying in baseball,&#8221; is a famous line from the movie A League of Their Own. (My wife says that is a movie about sisters. I say it is a movie about baseball.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">That is a self-contradictory statement. One person is crying tears while another is crying out loud. Both are crying while not crying in baseball.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Most negative statements can be self-contradictory:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>We cannot have cheating on this test. (Why would we have a test where cheating is beneficial. Isn&#8217;t that cheating the purpose?)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>We cannot have tests that discriminate. (If a test does not separate those who know from those who do not know, how is it a test?)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>We cannot object to what is said. (If we are saying things that everyone agrees with, why are we wasting time saying things that everyone already finds agreeable?)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>There is no talking in this hallway. (You are in the hallway telling us not to tell anything. Why are you violating your own instruction?)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I could go on with statements and then explanations of why they are self-contradictory. Solution?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Positive statements about what we desire to happen:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Show what you know on this test.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Once we enter the hallway, we will all walk silently.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Again, I could go on with positive statements that do not contradict themselves.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Take great care with negative instructions or admonitions. We can do better. Decide what it is we want to say and say that\u2014not a twisted negative statement that attempts to convey our meaning but usually conveys the opposite.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Dwayne Phillips Take caution with negative statements as they often contradict themselves. &#8220;There is no crying in baseball,&#8221; is a famous line from the movie A League of Their Own. (My wife says that is a movie about sisters. I say it is a movie about baseball.) That is a self-contradictory statement. One person [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[238,386,113,32,117,20,484,5],"tags":[240,387,225,154,229,142,485,128],"class_list":["post-4113","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-analysis","category-appearances","category-clarity","category-communication","category-integrity","category-learning","category-meaning","category-writing","tag-analysis","tag-appearances","tag-clarity","tag-communication","tag-integrity","tag-learning","tag-meaning","tag-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4113","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4113"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4113\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4114,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4113\/revisions\/4114"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}