Creative Cocoon

  1.      Differentiate between ‘Probability’ and ‘Possibility’. Ans: Probability is a theory which indicates the extent to which an event is likely to occur. It is a subset.  Probability thinking is considering the likelihood of something happening from past evidence. This can be described as something which has a great chance as well as a small chance of happening. Possibility is derived from the Latin word “possibilitas” which means able to be done is the capability of an event taking place or being done. It is a universal set. This word is used when something has a lesser chance of occurring.   2.     2.  Explain the types of fallacies. Ans: 1.      AD HOMINEM FALLACY: Under this the person who is making their point is targeted and not the statement.   EXAMPLE: JACK: You should stop smoking- it’s bad for you.   JILL: Look who’s talking! You smoke three packs a day!   Ja...

          CRITIQUE OF RIVIERE’S “WOMANLINESS AS A MASQUERADE” Riviere’s womanliness as a masquerade is an essay that describes two types of women mainly ‘Heterosexual’ and ‘Homosexual’. This essay aims at destabilization of masculinist psychoanalysis, whereas the latter in its vivid imaging of castration of anxiety qualifies as one of Freud’s most explicitly phallocentric essays. The essay is developed mainly on the area where she looks at an area of sexual development of intellectual women where femininity is a defensive mask that is used to hide masculinity. From the title ‘Womanliness as a Masquerade’ one comes to know that a woman hides her identity and acts as another person for men which is stated in the essay. Due to the society in which we live in women one of the topics which are discussed in the essay is that women are shelved by men due to certain character traits which are not appreciated by them which women possess. The essay also gives us a cle...