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...

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

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...

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

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...

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...

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

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...

In his thesis he criticized the theory of marginal utility as a petitio principii because it implies the notion of number implicitly. Thanks to Poensgen...

absurd conclusion must also be true. Begging the question, also called petitio principii, is a conclusion based on an assumption that requires further proof...

the question – In logic, begging the question is another term for petitio principii or arguing in a circle, in other words making assumptions in advance...

evaluative component, often used in ethical or political arguments. petitio principii Also known as begging the question, an informal fallacy where the...

159–172; but the point was disagreed by R. Weinstock, who called it a 'petitio principii', see e.g. "Newton's Principia and inverse-square orbits: the flaw...

Peter Vardy (theologian) Peter Wenz Peter Wessel Zapffe Peter Winch Petitio principii Petr Alekseevich Kropotkin Pëtr Alekseevich Kropotkin Petr Lavrovich...

involving the presupposition of a proposition in one of the premises (see petitio principii). In science, a positive feedback loop. In economics, a counterpart...

involving the presupposition of a proposition in one of the premises (see petitio principii). In science, a positive feedback loop. In economics, a counterpart...

Behav. (pdf) Berlin HA (2013). The Brainstem Begs the Question: “Petitio Principii”. Neuropsychoanalysis. 15(1): 25-29. (pdf) Hedrick AN, Berlin HA (2012)...

including, according to Jayatilleke, fallacies (hetvabhasah) such as petitio principii.: 236  Various fallacies were further covered under what were called...

Armoured Cavalry Regiment Santiago No 1, Spanish Army; Psalm 26:12 petitio principii request of the beginning Begging the question, a logical fallacy in...

This claim however, cannot be defended logically as it commits the petitio principii fallacy of assuming, without adequate justification, the conclusion...

analysed such as Paul Natorp's argument which contains the fallacy petitio principii. Today Joseph Geyser is rather unknown, but that Joseph Geyser's work...

1558, and Thomas Wilson. It contains a section on fallacies. Under petitio principii, it uses an even-handed example of Aristotelian and Copernican arguments...

"casuistry". Unfamiliarity is a personal and subjective concept. Petitio principii, chapter 8, spoken by District Attorney Carter Waddell. Apodictically...

must always remain, admission of this possibility begs the question (petitio principii): e.g., what form does timeless knowledge take? how would it come...