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Begging the Question-- Circular Reasoning Circular reasoning is restating a claim but with different wording; basically an arguer that begs the question is paraphrasing and the conclusion is already assumed.

State Farm The State Farm commercial firsts starts with the image of a man on the phone, it is obviously late at night. The viewer can tell this because the man appears to be wearing pajamas,a robe, and also all the lights in the house are off in the house.The next scene in the commercial is that a woman possibly the man's wife walks down the stairs and turns the lights on. The woman is clearly angered by her husband being on the phone at such a late hour; she then grabs the phone out of his hands and asks, "who is this" already assuming it is another woman. Still assuming that is is another woman she asks the State Farm employee, "what are you wearing, Jake from State Farm" Jake then replies with " khakis" The woman still assumes that her husband was talking to another woman because she then says "she sounds hideous."

media type="youtube" key="rqbomTIWCZ8" height="480" width="854" media type="youtube" key="ODiJ6yAIn1o" height="480" width="854" Snickers The Snickers commercial is assuming that "Marsha" is not acting like her self because she is hungry. The commercial first views "Marsha" as a man who is angry about a boy who hit her in the face with a football. "Marsha" then states that she can not go to the dance with a bandage over her nose. "Marsha's" mother then tells her that she is hungry and needs to eat a Snickers because she is not acting like her self. Her mother is assuming that she is not acting like herself all because she is hungry when there could be other reasons for her behavior.