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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Begging the question, is more formally synonymous with “ignoring a question under the assumption it has already been answered.” Begging the question often...

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...

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

with petitio principii (begging the question), which offers a premise no more plausible than, and often just a restatement of, the conclusion. Closely connected...

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...

including the fallacy of equivocation, the fallacy of amphiboly, the fallacies of composition and division, the false dilemma, the fallacy of begging the question...

Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Circularity may refer to: Circular definition Circular economy Circular reasoning, also known as circular logic Begging the question...

with pale skin and black eyes, who are reportedly seen hitchhiking or begging, or are encountered on doorsteps of residential homes. While tabloid coverage...

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...

true Trump supporter endorses violence" exemplify the fallacy. Ad hoc hypothesis Begging the question Caledonian Antisyzygy Democrat in Name Only Epistemic...

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...

possible to answer the question for the time being" pleading ignorance placing the responsibility to answer on someone else Begging the question Mental reservation...

argument. Philosophy portal Ad hominem – Attacking the person rather than the argument Begging the question – Logic founded on unproven premises Devil's advocate –...

ignoratio elenchi in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Ad hominem Begging the question Chewbacca defense Enthymeme Evasion (ethics) Genetic fallacy List...

as hyperbole even when the comparison made by the argument is appropriate. Godwin has criticized the over-application of the adage, claiming that it...

.. Something". The national press soon picked up the reports and helped spread the story across the United States. The source of the legend is believed...

cryptid, in the folklore of parts of the Americas. The name comes from the animal's purported vampirism—the chupacabra is said to attack and drink the blood...

committing a commonly identified fallacy of informal logic—namely, begging the question against an earnest, intelligent, logically competent relativist....

very serious ethical question when lawyers become literary agents." Weber himself "filed a two-million-dollar lawsuit against the couple, charging them...

or a suggestion towards the presence of spiritual influence. It is additionally thought that the repetition of numbers in the sequence adds "intensity"...

The stone that was in the box is something that is a signature creation of mine also. Make no mistake, I conceived of the Dybbuk Box – the name, the term...

modest and easy to defend (the "motte") and one much more controversial and harder to defend (the "bailey"). The arguer advances the controversial position...

psychotherapy. The method has been described by physicists as an example of quantum mysticism, and its founder Bert Hellinger incorporated the speculative...

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:...

attention, and communicative effort, and to portray the target as unreasonable. While the questions of the "sea lion" may seem innocent, they're intended maliciously...

an account of the alleged haunting of the Snedeker family in Southington, Connecticut, later called into question the veracity of the accounts contained...

Momo the Monster, also known as the Missouri Monster (Momo), is a purported ape-like creature, similar to descriptions of Bigfoot, that was allegedly sighted...

after receiving from a friend what he was told was the shirt in question, despite it actually being the same shirt he'd worn during his poor performance...