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Questioning the question by: requesting clarification; reflecting the question back to the questioner, for example saying "you tell me" Attacking the question by saying: "the question fails to address the important issue" "the question is hypothetical or speculative" "the question is based on a false premise" "the question is factually inaccurate"
Quine's paradox is a paradox concerning truth values, stated by Willard Van Orman Quine. [1] It is related to the liar paradox as a problem, and it purports to show that a sentence can be paradoxical even if it is not self-referring and does not use demonstratives or indexicals (i.e. it does not explicitly refer to itself).
Soames argues further that reformulations that attempt to account for this problem must beg the question. In specifying precisely which of the infinite number of truth-conditions for a sentence will count towards its meaning, one must take the meaning of the sentence as a guide. However, we wanted to specify meaning with truth-conditions ...
Historically, begging the question refers to a fault in a dialectical argument in which the speaker assumes some premise that has not been demonstrated to be true. In modern usage, it has come to refer to an argument in which the premises assume the conclusion without supporting it. This makes it an example of circular reasoning. [1] [2]
Sam has attempted problem 1, and he has attempted problem 2 as well. These examples illustrate that stripping is flexible insofar as the remnant in the stripped clause is not limited in function; it can, for instance, be a subject as in the first sentence or an object as in the second sentence.
After a three-year absence, Nick Rolovich has returned to college football coaching. Rolovich, formerly the head coach at Hawaii and Washington State, is joining Justin Wilcox's staff at Cal as a ...
From June 2009 to December 2012, if you bought shares in companies when Arthur C. Martinez joined the board, and sold them when he left, you would have a 52.2 percent return on your investment, compared to a 55.1 percent return from the S&P 500.
An Alabama woman "is recuperating well" after undergoing a pig kidney transplant in New York City, per reports. Towana Looney, 53, underwent surgery using the organ from a genetically manipulated ...