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glossary:existential_import [30.05.26, 15:56:49] – [Existential Import in language] saschaglossary:existential_import [30.05.26, 15:57:09] (current) – [Rhetorical abuse] sascha
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-The situation is different when unproven assumptions are introduced into arguments as if they were established facts, without ever actually being substantiated. In such cases, we often encounter some form of [[logic:formal_fallacies:circular_reasoning|Circular reasoning]]: the assumption is treated as a premise from which conclusions are then drawn, which in turn appear to confirm the original assumption. +The situation is different when unproven assumptions are introduced into arguments as if they were established facts, without ever actually being substantiated. In such cases, we often encounter some form of [[logic:formal_fallacies:circular_reasoning|circular reasoning]]: the assumption is treated as a premise from which conclusions are then drawn, which in turn appear to confirm the original assumption. 
  
 This tactic is particularly prevalent in conspiracy theories and pseudoscientific arguments, but it also crops up in everyday discourse -- where it is all too often not recognised for what it is: a //manipulative// rhetorical device.  This tactic is particularly prevalent in conspiracy theories and pseudoscientific arguments, but it also crops up in everyday discourse -- where it is all too often not recognised for what it is: a //manipulative// rhetorical device. 

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