and logic, begging the question or assuming the conclusion (Latin: petītiō principiī) is an informal fallacy that occurs when an argument's premises assume...

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...

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...

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...

fallacies (extra dictionem): Accident Secundum quid Irrelevant conclusion Petitio principii False cause Affirming the consequent Fallacy of many questions Sometimes...

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...

murdered their parents asking for leniency). Begging the question (petitio principii) – using the conclusion of the argument in support of itself in a...

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...

Khayyam can be considered the first treatment of the axiom not based on petitio principii, but on a more intuitive postulate. Khayyam refutes the previous attempts...

or irrelevant thesis. Chapter 15 deals with begging the question (petitio principii). Chapter 16 deals with false cause (non-causam ut causam) Chapter...