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The concept can be traced as far back as Aristotle, but HW Fowler, whose entry on begging the question is listed under the Latin petitio principii (assumption of the basis), defines it as "the fallacy of founding a conclusion on a basis that as much needs to be proved as the conclusion itself", giving as an example "foxhunting is not cruel, since the fox enjoys the fun".
And the alternative-energy conclusion itself could make another movie.
The most powerful argument in politics are where the voters themselves fill in the conclusion itself".
He may be arriving at this conclusion by a route involving some indefensible detours, but the conclusion itself is sound.
But if that choice can lead you to either buy a sweatshirt or blow up a building, the conclusion itself seems a little forced.
Thus, the conclusion itself becomes a disjunction: Either you have been beating your wife or you are continuing to beat her.
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Its many coincidences often feel entirely stage-managed, and both the setup for the novel's conclusion and the ending itself are lumbering and forced.
"I thought the party had come to a conclusion among itself that we were going to have a decent debate but it wasn't going to be acrimonious," Davis said on BBC Radio 4's Today programme.
The conclusion by itself is not per se nota.
This observation was originally made by Bernard de Mandeville, whose Fable of the Bees, published in 1714, reached this conclusion: "Envy Itself and Vanity / Were Ministers of Industry".
Yet cynicism alone, if taken to a reductionistic conclusion, is itself a poison which cannot heal the poison that affects that which we love the most.
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