{"id":3521,"date":"2017-10-02T16:30:14","date_gmt":"2017-10-02T16:30:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/socialcoldstreams.wordpress.com\/?p=3521"},"modified":"2017-10-02T16:30:14","modified_gmt":"2017-10-02T16:30:14","slug":"begging-the-question-fallacy-another-illustration-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/2017\/10\/02\/begging-the-question-fallacy-another-illustration-today\/","title":{"rendered":"Begging the question fallacy: Another illustration today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just days ago I wrote about the &#8220;Begging the question&#8221; fallacy &#8220;<em>sometimes known by its Latin name petitio principii (meaning assuming the initial point), is a logical fallacy in which the writer or speaker assumes the statement under examination to be true<\/em>&#8221; (See <a href=\"https:\/\/socialcoldstreams.wordpress.com\/2017\/09\/19\/begging-the-question-fallacy-in-propaganda-messaging\/\">Begging the question (fallacy) in propaganda messaging | Occupy Propaganda)<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I noted classic examples after well publicized corporate gaffes, such as United Airlines dragging a legitimately seated, paying customer off a flight and then issuing a statement that &#8220;this is not who we are&#8221; even though actual events showed the opposite.<\/p>\n<p>After the horrific events in Las Vegas last night, &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/lasvegassun.com\/news\/2017\/oct\/01\/reports-active-shooters-on-las-vegas-strip\/\">Clark County Commissioner Steve Sisolak offered assurances that Las Vegas was safe<\/a>&#8221; even though his statement was empirically proven false hours earlier.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just days ago I wrote about the &#8220;Begging the question&#8221; fallacy &#8220;sometimes known by its Latin name petitio principii (meaning assuming the initial point), is a logical fallacy in which the writer or speaker assumes the statement under examination to be true&#8221; (See Begging the question (fallacy) in propaganda messaging | Occupy Propaganda) I noted classic examples after well publicized corporate gaffes, such as United Airlines dragging a legitimately seated, paying customer off a flight and then issuing a statement&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/2017\/10\/02\/begging-the-question-fallacy-another-illustration-today\/\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3521","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-begging-the-question-fallacy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3521","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3521"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3521\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}