• 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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  • 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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    fallacies (extra dictionem): Accident Secundum quid Irrelevant conclusion Petitio principii False cause Affirming the consequent Fallacy of many questions Sometimes...
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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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    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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    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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  • 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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    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...
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  • 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...
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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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  • 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...
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  • evaluative component, often used in ethical or political arguments. petitio principii Also known as begging the question, an informal fallacy where the...
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  • 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...
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  • Peter Vardy (theologian) Peter Wenz Peter Wessel Zapffe Peter Winch Petitio principii Petr Alekseevich Kropotkin Pëtr Alekseevich Kropotkin Petr Lavrovich...
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  • involving the presupposition of a proposition in one of the premises (see petitio principii). In science, a positive feedback loop. In economics, a counterpart...
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  • involving the presupposition of a proposition in one of the premises (see petitio principii). In science, a positive feedback loop. In economics, a counterpart...
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    Behav. (pdf) Berlin HA (2013). The Brainstem Begs the Question: “Petitio Principii”. Neuropsychoanalysis. 15(1): 25-29. (pdf) Hedrick AN, Berlin HA (2012)...
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    Armoured Cavalry Regiment Santiago No 1, Spanish Army; Psalm 26:12 petitio principii request of the beginning Begging the question, a logical fallacy in...
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    including, according to Jayatilleke, fallacies (hetvabhasah) such as petitio principii.: 236  Various fallacies were further covered under what were called...
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    This claim however, cannot be defended logically as it commits the petitio principii fallacy of assuming, without adequate justification, the conclusion...
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  • 1558, and Thomas Wilson. It contains a section on fallacies. Under petitio principii, it uses an even-handed example of Aristotelian and Copernican arguments...
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  • 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...
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  • "casuistry". Unfamiliarity is a personal and subjective concept. Petitio principii, chapter 8, spoken by District Attorney Carter Waddell. Apodictically...
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  • must always remain, admission of this possibility begs the question (petitio principii): e.g., what form does timeless knowledge take? how would it come...
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