Begging the question (redirect from Petitio principii)
and logic, begging the question or assuming the conclusion (Latin: petītiō principiī) is an informal fallacy that occurs when an argument's premises assume...
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group included all of Aristotle's sophisms except ignoratio elenchi, petitio principii, and non causa pro causa, which are in the material group. Other famous...
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allows only for one answer. This fallacy can be also confused with petitio principii (begging the question), which offers a premise no more plausible than...
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fallacies (extra dictionem): Accident Secundum quid Irrelevant conclusion Petitio principii False cause Affirming the consequent Fallacy of many questions Sometimes...
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incongruity and presumption is involved, as that which is called petitio principii—i.e. a begging of the question—an assumption of the matter in dispute...
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absurd conclusion must also be true. Begging the question, also called petitio principii, is a conclusion based on an assumption that requires further proof...
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Conclusions Yourself Meet Him With a Counter-Argument as Bad as His Petitio principii Make Him Exaggerate His Statement State a False Syllogism Find One...
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murdered their parents asking for leniency). Begging the question (petitio principii) – using the conclusion of the argument in support of itself in a...
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or irrelevant thesis. Chapter 15 deals with begging the question (petitio principii). Chapter 16 deals with false cause (non-causam ut causam) Chapter...
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sheer speculation, with no evidence to support it; 2. it involves a petitio principii in that it assumes what is seeks to prove; 3. it does not make sense...
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