Which only goes to show that a dedicated soup spoon is lost on many of us North Americans. It becomes unrecognizable in its non-being, even as it reflects the moon.
djm
I'd rather be atop the foothills than beneath them.
djm wrote:Which only goes to show that a dedicated soup spoon is lost on many of us North Americans. It becomes unrecognizable in its non-being, even as it reflects the moon.
Quite so. I thought it was a side-view mirror from an MGB.
Some Random Webstie wrote:DEFINITION -- Circular logic is a logical error, caused by first making some assumption that can't be proven true, then, on the basis of that assumption, deriving some result that is then used to "prove" that the first assumption is true.
The Wiki wrote:In logic, begging the question describes a type of logical fallacy, petitio principii, in which the conclusion of an argument is implicitly or explicitly assumed in one of the premises.[1] Stephen Barker explains the fallacy in The Elements of Logic: "If the premises are related to the conclusion in such an intimate way that the speaker and listeners could not have less reason to doubt the premise than they have to doubt the conclusion, then the argument is worthless as a proof, even though the link between premises and conclusion may have the most cast-iron rigor".[1] In other words, the argument fails to prove anything because it takes for granted what it is supposed to prove.
Begging the question is related to the fallacy known as circular argument, circulus in probando, vicious circle or circular reasoning. As a concept in logic the first known definition in the West is by the Greek philosopher Aristotle around 350 B.C., in the Prior Analytics.
Ho Hum.......
Someday, everything is gonna be diff'rent
When I paint my masterpiece.
