• begging the question or assuming the conclusion (Latin: petītiō principiī) is an informal fallacy that occurs when an argument's premises assume the truth...
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  • 36–37 Archived 2023-04-07 at the Wayback Machine "Fallacy: Begging the Question". The Nizkor Project. Archived from the original on March 10, 2019. Retrieved...
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  • Begging the question, is more formally synonymous with “ignoring a question under the assumption it has already been answered.” Begging the question often...
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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 premise...
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  • with petitio principii (begging the question), which offers a premise no more plausible than, and often just a restatement of, the conclusion. Closely connected...
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    including the fallacy of equivocation, the fallacy of amphiboly, the fallacies of composition and division, the false dilemma, the fallacy of begging the question...
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  • internalism is true, then the OQA may avoid begging the question against the naturalist by claiming that the moral properties and the motivations to act belong...
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  • violence" exemplify the fallacy. Ad hoc hypothesis Begging the question Epistemic commitment Equivocation List of fallacies Moving the goalposts Persuasive...
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  • ignoratio elenchi in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Ad hominem Begging the question Chewbacca defense Enthymeme Evasion (ethics) Genetic fallacy List...
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    Edition. Philosophy portal Ad hominem – Attacking the person rather than the argument Begging the question – Logic founded on unproven premises Devil's advocate –...
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  • committing a commonly identified fallacy of informal logic—namely, begging the question against an earnest, intelligent, logically competent relativist....
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  • fallacy at all is present. Thus in some contexts it may be a form of begging the question, and it is also a special case of ad lapidem. Argument from ignorance...
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    Circular reasoning (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica with Wikisource reference)
    closely related to begging the question, and in modern usage the two generally refer to the same thing. Circular reasoning is often of the form: "A is true...
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    Robert the Doll is a reportedly haunted doll exhibited at the East Martello Museum in Key West, Florida. He was once owned by painter, author, and Key...
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    with pale skin and black eyes, who are reportedly seen hitchhiking or begging, or are encountered on doorsteps of residential homes. While tabloid coverage...
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  • assume the truth of the conclusion, and that are not involved in any faulty deductive inference. Fallacies such as begging the question, denying the antecedent...
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  • premises, and is no more "supported" than are the assumptions upon which the claim rests, i.e. begging the question. David Miller (1994). Critical Rationalism:...
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  • an account of the alleged haunting of the Snedeker family in Southington, Connecticut, later called into question the veracity of the accounts contained...
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  • objects that this[clarification needed] would be committing the fallacy of begging the question. Appeal to nature Appeal to novelty Appeal to tradition Moralistic...
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    based on the doll is one of the antagonists that appear in The Conjuring Universe. According to the Warrens, a student nurse was given the doll in 1970...
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  • possible to answer the question for the time being" pleading ignorance placing the responsibility to answer on someone else Begging the question Mental reservation...
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  • very serious ethical question when lawyers become literary agents." Weber himself "filed a two-million-dollar lawsuit against the couple, charging them...
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  • interest in a topic. The article questioned why this political tactic resulted in viewers feeling more anger than anxiety. The study found that anger...
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  • further argues that the simulation argument amounts to "begging the question," due to the "embarrassing question" of the nature of the underlying reality...
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  • Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Circularity may refer to: Circular definition Circular economy Circular reasoning, also known as circular logic Begging the question...
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  • like the word "normal", in some contexts, it can carry an implicit value judgement. An appeal to nature would thus beg the question, because the conclusion...
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    it conveys no information at all. Philosophy portal Novels portal Begging the question Circular reasoning Cornelian dilemma Deadlock Double bind False dilemma...
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  • Archived from the original on May 16, 2017. Retrieved May 15, 2017. Browne, M Neil; Keeley, Stuart M (2004). Asking the right questions: a guide to critical...
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  • A double-barreled question (sometimes, double-direct question) is an informal fallacy. It is committed when someone asks a question that touches upon...
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  • equivocation ("calling two different things by the same name") is an informal fallacy resulting from the use of a particular word or expression in multiple...
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