Thursday, 7 February 2013

Contrarily

Prefer contrarily when you are emphasizing disagreement. Prefer conversely when things are flipped over where left becomes right and right becomes left. Prefer inversely when thing are flipped such that top becomes bottom and bottom becomes top.

Bob is a liberal. Contrarily, his wife is a conservative (or Jew and Christian or Catholic and Protestant). Or, the child was contrary all day and never did mind his mother.

Friday, 17 August 2012

Contrary

A Contrary was a member of a Native North American tribal group who adopted behavior that was deliberately the opposite of other tribal members. The Contraries were found among the historical Amerindian tribes of the Great Plains. They were a small number of individuals loosely organized into a cult that was devoted to the practice of contrary behavior.

The Contraries are related, in part, to the clown organizations of the Plains Indians, as well as to Plains military societies that contained reverse warriors. The Lakota word heyoka, which translates as clown or opposites, serves as a collective title for these institutionalized forms of contrary behavior of the Plains Indians. When Lakota Indians first saw European clowns, they identified them with their own term for clowns, heyoka.

Tuesday, 12 July 2011

Analysis

Analysis is the process of breaking a complex topic or substance into smaller parts to gain a better understanding of it. The technique has been applied in the study of mathematics and logic since before Aristotle (384–322 B.C.), though analysis as a formal concept is a relatively recent development.