petitio

IPA: pɪtˈɪʃioʊ

the logical fallacy of assuming the conclusion in the premises; begging the question

Examples of "petitio" in Sentences

Instead of calling it petitio principii, I would call it an ouroborus argument.
You're just employing another petitio principii and it's not worth anyone time to answer.
"You're just employing another petitio principii and it's not worth anyone time to answer."
This reasoning is also petitio principii a proposition which requires proof is assumed without proof.
Second, because the idea of petitio principii is an interesting one and it is useful to have an English phrase for it.
The first is the fallacy of presumption, also know as petitio principii, which you impliedly assert is the only correct denotation.
Quite likely, a variety of paleontologico-stratigraphical studies are unreliable because they are founded on a petitio principii the logical fallacy of 'begging the question'....
Bat echolocation isn’t evidence of teleology unless one assumes that echolocation can only be the result of intent – that is circular reasoning, aka petitio principii, aka begging the question.
To quote writers who inveigh against unjust taxation without first establishing whether Belloc's proposed taxation is unjust, is to be guilty of what in logic is called a petitio principii, that is, begging the question.
That they may fall into such wicked and abominable ways as shall render them altogether unmeet for that relation, according to the law of it, is that great argument, called petitio principii, which Mr Goodwin hath used in this case a hundred times.