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Of the ways in which a questioner may beg the original question
and also beg contraries the true account has been given in the
Analytics; |
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People appear to beg their original question in five ways: |
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The ways in which people assume contraries are equal in number to
those in which they beg their original question. |
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firstly, if any one were to beg an opposite affirmation and
negation; |
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secondly, if he were to beg the contrary terms of an
antithesis, e.g. that the same thing is good and evil; |
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thirdly,
suppose any one were to claim something universally and then proceed
to beg its contradictory in some particular case, e.g. if having
secured that the knowledge of contraries is one, he were to
claim that
the knowledge of what makes for health or for disease is different; |
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fourthly, suppose him, after postulating the latter view, to try
to secure universally the contradictory statement. |
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fifthly,
suppose a man begs the contrary of the conclusion which necessarily
comes about through the premisses laid down; |
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