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Kunstgriff 22

Fordert er, daß wir etwas zugeben, daraus das in Streit stehende Problem unmittelbar folgen würde; so lehnen wir es ab, indem wir es für eine petitio principii ausgeben; denn er und die Zuhörer werden einen dem Problem nahe verwandten Satz leicht als mit dem Problem identisch ansehn: und so entziehn wir ihm sein bestes Argument.

 

Stratagem XXII

If your opponent requires you to admit something from which the point in dispute will immediately follow, you must refuse to do so, declaring that it is a petitio principii. For he and the audience will regard a proposition which is near akin to the point in dispute as identical with it, and in this way you deprive him of his best argument.


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