{"id":17056,"date":"2014-05-03T21:58:29","date_gmt":"2014-05-04T01:58:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/?page_id=17056"},"modified":"2014-05-03T22:06:45","modified_gmt":"2014-05-04T02:06:45","slug":"definitions","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/about\/definitions\/","title":{"rendered":"Definitions"},"content":{"rendered":"

This page is for definitions of some of the terms I use on the blog.<\/p>\n

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begging the question<\/a><\/dt>\n
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\nBegging the question<\/a> means \u201cassuming the conclusion (of an argument)\u201d, a type of circular reasoning<\/a>. This is an informal fallacy<\/a> where the conclusion that one is attempting to prove is included in the initial premises of an argument, often in an indirect way that conceals this fact.[<\/span>1]<\/span>
\n<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n<\/dd>\n

petitio principii<\/a><\/dt>\n
basing a conclusion on an assumption that is as much in need of proof or demonstration as the conclusion itself. A logical fallacy in which a premise is assumed to be true without warrant or in which what is to be proved is implicitly taken for granted<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This page is for definitions of some of the terms I use on the blog. begging the question Begging the question means \u201cassuming the conclusion (of an argument)\u201d, a type of circular reasoning. This is an informal fallacy where the conclusion that one is attempting to prove is included in the initial premises of an […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":4,"menu_order":2,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-17056","page","type-page","status-publish","czr-hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/17056","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17056"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/17056\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17061,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/17056\/revisions\/17061"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17056"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}