Question-begging in non-cumulative systems
Question-begging in non-cumulative systems
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非累积系统中的提问
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发表时间:
1979
影响因子:
1.5
通讯作者:
J. Mackenzie
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作者:
J. Mackenzie
In their recent paper [A], J. Woods and D. Walton compare two approaches to the fallacy of begging the question (petitio pnizcipii). One is what they call the epistemicdoxastic approach: an argument is circular, and the person who uses it begs the question, if in order to know the truth of some premiss of the argument one must already know the truth of the conclusion, or some account of that general kind. The other approach is dialectical, that is, in terms of dialogue. This approach considers the fallacy as it arises in the context of contentious debate, when one participant asks the other to grant him a premiss which contains the substance of what is in dispute (see Hamblin [F] ,,p. 73). Woods and Walton claim that: