Question-Begging Under a Non-Foundational Model of Argument

Question-Begging Under a Non-Foundational Model of Argument

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Question-Begging Under a Non-Foundational Model of Argument

dc.contributor.author	Suber, Peter
dc.date.accessioned	2010-03-08T16:04:17Z
dc.date.issued	1994
dc.identifier.citation	Suber, Peter. 1994. Question-begging under a non-foundational model of argument. Argumentation 8(3): 241-250.	en_US
dc.identifier.issn	0920-427X	en_US
dc.identifier.issn	1572-8374	en_US
dc.identifier.uri	http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUL.InstRepos:3715474
dc.description.abstract	I find (as others have found) that question-begging is formally valid but rationally unpersuasive. More precisely, itought to be unpersuasive, although it can often persuade. Despite its formal validity, question-begging fails to establish its conclusion; in this sense it fails under a classical or foundationalist model of argument. But it does link its conclusion to its premises by means of acceptable rules of inference; in this sense it succeeds under a non-classical, non-foundationalist model of argument which is spelled out in the essay. However, even for the latter model question-begging fails to link the conclusion to premises that the unconvinced would find more acceptable than the conclusion. The essay includes reflections on the conditions under which the circularity of mutually supporting claims can avoid question-begging and legitimately be persuasive.	en_US
dc.description.sponsorship	Other Research Unit	en_US
dc.language.iso	en_US	en_US
dc.publisher	Springer Verlag	en_US
dc.relation.isversionof	doi:10.1007/BF00711191	en_US
dc.relation.hasversion	http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/writing/bq.htm	en_US
dash.license	LAA
dc.subject	begging the question	en_US
dc.subject	question-begging	en_US
dc.subject	petitio principii	en_US
dc.subject	circular reasoning	en_US
dc.subject	non-foundationalism	en_US
dc.subject	coherentism	en_US
dc.subject	vouching	en_US
dc.subject	philosophy
dc.subject	logic
dc.subject	rhetoric
dc.title	Question-Begging Under a Non-Foundational Model of Argument	en_US
dc.type	Journal Article	en_US
dc.description.version	Accepted Manuscript	en_US
dc.relation.journal	Argumentation	en_US
dash.depositing.author	Suber, Peter
dc.date.available	2010-03-08T16:04:17Z