{"id":2694,"date":"2011-04-26T10:22:17","date_gmt":"2011-04-26T15:22:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/?p=2694"},"modified":"2011-04-27T10:22:19","modified_gmt":"2011-04-27T15:22:19","slug":"a-circular-argument-against-begging-the-question","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/?p=2694","title":{"rendered":"A circular argument against begging the question"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A puzzle&nbsp;for the readers of the <em>NonSequitur<\/em>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Colin, John and I will be attending the upcoming Ontario Society for the Study of Argumentation (<a href=\"http:\/\/web2.uwindsor.ca\/cpa\/OSSA\/index.htm\">OSSA<\/a>) conference in the coming weeks.&nbsp; We&#039;re presenting a version of the Subjunctive Tu Quoque argument (Colin blazed the trail <a href=\"http:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/?p=1713\">here<\/a>).&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>To the point, I&#039;m slated to comment on a paper <strong>with the thesis that there are virtuous circular arguments<\/strong>.&nbsp; I&#039;ve posed a challenge to the author, with the following argument:<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left: 40px\"><strong>P1: <\/strong>There are no virtuous circular arguments.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left: 40px\"><strong>C: <\/strong><em>Therefore, <\/em>there are no virtuous circular arguments.<\/p>\n<p>The challenge is to explain, <strong>if there <em>are <\/em>virtuous circular arguments, what is wrong with P1 being used to support C<\/strong>.&nbsp;Of course, the author doesn&#039;t get to say that P1 begs the question.<\/p>\n<p>Is this out of bounds?&nbsp; Moreover, if the challenge can&#039;t be met, what follows?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A puzzle&nbsp;for the readers of the NonSequitur.&nbsp; Colin, John and I will be attending the upcoming Ontario Society for the Study of Argumentation (OSSA) conference in the coming weeks.&nbsp; We&#039;re presenting a version of the Subjunctive Tu Quoque argument (Colin blazed the trail here).&nbsp; To the point, I&#039;m slated to comment on a paper with &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/?p=2694\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">A circular argument against begging the question<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,24,1,12],"tags":[1970,739,1051],"class_list":["post-2694","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-argument-analysis","category-begging-the-question","category-general","category-straw-man","tag-begging-the-question","tag-circular-arguments","tag-ossa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2694","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2694"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2694\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2698,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2694\/revisions\/2698"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}