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Begging the Question?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 June 2010

M. E. Williams
M. E. Williams
Affiliation:
University of Western Ontario
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Dialogue: Canadian Philosophical Review / Revue canadienne de philosophie , Volume 6 , Issue 4 , March 1968 , pp. 567 - 570
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Copyright © Canadian Philosophical Association 1968

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References

1 Johnson, Oliver A., “Begging the Question,” Dialogue, Vol. VI, No. 2 (September 1967), pp. 135–150.CrossRefGoogle Scholar

2 Ibid., p. 135.

3 Ibid., p. 145.

4 Ibid., p. 150.

5 Cf. Ibid., p. 150: “For one who rejects logic, no word can any longer have any meaning because he has no way of affirming a single meaning for it and ruling out incompatible meanings.”

6 Johnson also seems to betray an ontology when he writes: “According to my conclusion we know that a proposition is true if we can demonstrate it to be logically necessary. We are thus entitled to believe that what the proposition asserts is a correct description of the nature of things.”