Usage of "assuming the conclusion"

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Type of fallacy, where a proposition is assumed as a premise, which itself needs a proof and directly entails the conclusion.

Fallacy.

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Examples for "begging the question"

Examples for "begging the question"

And yet its very success came from begging the question, after all. 
 A Reversion To Type 

This fact is rather disguised by the mysterious phrase ' begging the question.' 
 Deductive Logic 

And to suppose this, is it not begging the question? 
 Three Dialogues Between Hylas and Philonous in Opposition to Sce... 

Pardon me, my dear; that is begging the question. 
 Wild Kitty 

To say it is experimental is begging the question. 
 The World's Greatest Books — Volume 14 — Philosophy and Economic... 

The whole system is a petitio principii really. 
 The Altar Steps 

The problem he sets out to solve, and he solves it by a petitio principii, is 
 The Complete Works of Brann, the Iconoclast — Volume 10 

Under the head of petitio principii comes the fallacy of Arguing in a Circle, which is incidental to a train of reasoning. 
 Deductive Logic 

Petitio Principii, Fallacy of, 874. 
 Deductive Logic 

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Significats de assuming the conclusion en anglès