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Olivia Payne Begging the question fallacy project

Begging the question is essentially assuming that a statement is true without having logic to show why the statement is true in the first place. Beg means assume and question means premise so this statement should be assume the premise. An example of begging the question is Paranormal activity is real because I have experienced what can only be described as paranormal activity. This is begging the question because the argument is making a circle. This is where begging the question got the name Circular Reasoning.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k-ayZwLY2EM

This is a good example of begging the question fallacy because, Dorothy Collins claims that Lucky Strike cigarettes are the best, but does not explain why or how they are better. She makes rash assumptions that have no real evidence to prove her claim as to why Lucky Strike cigarettes are the best. In addition, she is restating her claim in a different way, which is making her statement go in a circle.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V6-AFtuFvkI This video displays the fallacy begging the question because the girl informs Django about the big house. She claims that it is called the big house because its big. Her statement completely commemorates her claim about the home. This is a good example of begging the question (circular reasoning) because in the video its says that there is the big house, daddy calls it the big house cause its big.