{"id":2829,"date":"2011-05-21T15:48:01","date_gmt":"2011-05-21T20:48:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/?p=2829"},"modified":"2011-05-21T15:48:01","modified_gmt":"2011-05-21T20:48:01","slug":"ossa-day-3-on-begging-the-question","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/?p=2829","title":{"rendered":"OSSA Day 3: On begging the question"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Patrick Bondy (McMaster University) &quot;Epistemic Circularity&quot;<\/p>\n<p>Bondy looks at track record arguments (arguments wherein one cites one&#39;s successful beliefs to support further beliefs&#8211;I have a good track record, so I&#39;m right).&nbsp; Seems right to think such arguments are circular, and hence bad.&nbsp; But not everyone agrees.&nbsp; Some (Alston, Bergmann) think you can have virtuous circular arguments (we&#39;ve discussed this before).&nbsp; But, Bondy argues, their accounts collapse under their own weight.&nbsp; &nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Patrick Bondy (McMaster University) &quot;Epistemic Circularity&quot; Bondy looks at track record arguments (arguments wherein one cites one&#39;s successful beliefs to support further beliefs&#8211;I have a good track record, so I&#39;m right).&nbsp; Seems right to think such arguments are circular, and hence bad.&nbsp; But not everyone agrees.&nbsp; Some (Alston, Bergmann) think you can have virtuous circular &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/?p=2829\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">OSSA Day 3: On begging the question<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1103,1102,1100,1101,1099],"class_list":["post-2829","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-alston","tag-bergmann","tag-epistemic-circularity","tag-on-begging-the-question","tag-patrick-bondy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2829","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2829"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2829\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2836,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2829\/revisions\/2836"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2829"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2829"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2829"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}