Comment on Peter of Spain, Jim Mackenzie and begging the question
type: Item
instance of: scholarly article
title: Comment on Peter of Spain, Jim Mackenzie and begging the question
zbMATH Open document ID: 0776.03002
DOI: 10.1007/BF01049306
author: Kent Wilson
published in: Journal of Philosophical Logic
publication date: 1993-08-19T00:00:00Z
review text: This paper claims to detect a failure in the reviewer's ``Confirmation of a conjecture of Peter of Spain concerning question-begging arguments'' [J. Philos. Logic 13, 35-45 (1984; Zbl 0538.03002)], namely that it does not classify the argument \(\underline x/\therefore\underline y\) as question-begging where \(\underline x=\underline z\& \underline y\), where \(\underline x\) is a universalisation of which \(\underline y\) is an instance, or where \(\underline x\) presupposes \(\underline y\). Indeed it doesn't. They only beg the question if \(\underline x\) is not defended in turn without appealing to \(\underline y\). An example of the conjunctive case in which this is plausible is defending ``April has only thirty days'' by replying ``Thirty days hath September, April, June, and November'', which is in turn defended by appeal to the authority of one's Third-Year teacher [the reviewer, ``Why do we number theorems?'', Austral. J. Philos. 58, 135-149 (1980), p. 140; cf. \textit{R. Sorensen}, `` ``\(\underline P\), therefore \(\underline P\)'' without circularity'', J. Philos. 88, 245-266 (1991), pp. 250 n.]. It is pleasing that the pace of this debate has picked up from 7 centuries to 9 years between moves.
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 03A05
zbMATH DE Number: 203334
zbMATH Keywords: dialogue
zbMATH Keywords: fallacies
zbMATH Keywords: question-begging
reviewed by: Jim Mackenzie
MaRDI profile type: Publication
cites work: Question-begging in non-cumulative systems
cites work: Confirmation of a conjecture of Peter of Spain concerning question- begging arguments
cites work: Q5337194
full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/bf01049306
OpenAlex ID: W2068119394
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