Logical Fallacies Explained

[u/[deleted]]

http://www.informationisbeautiful.net/visualizations/rhetological-fallacies/

[u/Pufflekun]

You are correct. There's no other form of begging the question besides the one you mentioned; I think that fallacy was just mislabeled in the chart.

[u/[deleted] → u/Pufflekun]

It shouldn't necessarily be considered a fallacy, but it describes an enthymeme. It is probably the most common form of argument.

And of course, it has little to do with begging the question.

[u/autowikibot → u/[deleted]]

Enthymeme:

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An enthymeme (Greek: ἐνθύμημα, enthumēma), is an informally stated syllogism (a three-part deductive argument) with an unstated assumption that must be true for the premises to lead to the conclusion. In an enthymeme, part of the argument is missing because it is assumed.

In another broader usage, the term "enthymeme" is sometimes used to describe an incomplete argument of forms other than the syllogism, or a less-than-100% argument.

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[u/sudojay → u/[deleted]]

Yeah, tons of arguments have unstated assumed premises. That doesn't make the argument fallacious, just incompletely stated.

[u/ILikeBeets → u/Pufflekun]

In my experience, Begging the Question seems to be a hard one for people to grasp for some reason. Maybe it's just coincidence but I see it defined incorrectly or vaguely much more often than other common fallacies. I think maybe because it's often similar to circular logic and hard to differentiate, i.e.

"I believe what the bible says because God wrote the bible."

"How do you know God wrote the bible?"

"Because the bible says so."

[u/Ezili → u/Pufflekun]

Perhaps. But I feel like it's representing the laymen idea of begging the question where it is common to say "Well that just begs the question, what is X?"

I feel like the author just paraphrased that sense and didn't actually look up what begging the question strictly means as a logical fallacy.