Crossword-Solution: PETITIO
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| ___ principii (begging the question) | 1 answer |
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Hint 1 meaning
The likeness of a living being sculptured or modeled in
some solid substance, as marble, bronze, or wax; an image; as, a statue
of Hercules, or of a lion.
Hint 2 anagram
UTASTE
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Liberty
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Sentences with PETITIO (5)
Paul as we may and should interpret any other honest and intelligent writer or speaker,”—then, I say, this is the very _petitio principii_ of which I complain.
Still, with the same 'petitio principii' that the Reformed religion and the dogmas of the Contra-Remonstrants were one and the same thing, he assured the Assembly that the authority of the magistrates would be sustained by him so long as it did not lead to the subversion of religion.
When we inquire what the suffragist understands under the Principle of Justice, one receives by way of answer only the _petitio principii [question begging]_ that Justice is a moral principle which includes woman suffrage among its implications.
But, if I had reasoned thus, I should not only have been guilty of a _petitio principii_ (as you alleged), but also of a circle.
The Fallacy of Petitio or Assumptio Principii [Greek: tò èn àrchê aìteîstai or lambánein] to which we now come, consists in an unfair assumption of the point at issue.
Quotes with PETITIO (1)
[Materialism] seeks the primary and most simple state of matter, and then tries to develop all the others from it; ascending from mere mechanism, to chemism, to polarity, to the vegetable and to the animal kingdom. And if we suppose this to have been done, the last link in the chain would be animal sensibility - that is knowledge - which would consequently now appear as a mere modification or state of matter produced by causality. Now if we had followed materialism thus far w…
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Appears in: NY Sun.
Used 1 time in crossword archives (2008).