{"id":885,"date":"2024-03-13T05:04:22","date_gmt":"2024-03-13T05:04:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2024\/03\/13\/bare-assertion-and-circularity\/"},"modified":"2024-03-13T05:04:22","modified_gmt":"2024-03-13T05:04:22","slug":"bare-assertion-and-circularity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2024\/03\/13\/bare-assertion-and-circularity\/","title":{"rendered":"Bare Assertion and Circularity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 14pt;\">&quot;There is no evidence because there is no evidence.&quot; Thus some shyster defending Hunter Biden against charges of wrongdoing. I am tempted to call this a <em>presuppositional<\/em> approach to political apologetics.&#0160;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 14pt;\">A circular argument is an argument, but because the &#39;diameter&#39; of the circle is zero, it is no better than a bare assertion. It is a bare assertion dressed up as an argument. You could say that it is a bare assertion in argumentative drag.&#0160;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 14pt;\">You know about bare assertion: <em>quod gratis asseritur, gratis negatur<\/em>. How delightful the pithy punch of this Latin tag! Unpacked, and replacing the indicative mood with the <a href=\"https:\/\/glossary.sil.org\/term\/permissive-mood\">permissive<\/a>, the point is that whatever may be gratuitously asserted may be gratuitously denied.&#0160; Thus, with no breach of logical propriety, I am allowed to meet your bare assertion with a bare counter-assertion. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=XEy4izjNsUQ\">From a logical point of view<\/a>, there is nothing to choose between the two.&#0160;<\/span><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 14pt;\">Or as Hegel writes in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.projekt-gutenberg.org\/hegel\/phaenom\/phaeinlt.html\">Introduction<\/a> to the <strong>Phenomenology of Spirit<\/strong>, <em>ein<\/em> <em>trockenes Versichern gilt gerade so viel als ein anderes.<\/em> (Felix Meiner Ausgabe, 66)&#0160; &quot;. . . <em>one<\/em> dry assurance counts exactly as much as&#0160; any other.&quot;&#0160;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 14pt;\">So why did the shyster give a circular argument in defense of Joe Biden&#39;s scumbag son? Was he so embarrassed to make a palpably false bare assertion that he felt the need to smuggle it in&#0160; under argumentative cover?&#0160; &quot;See? I&#39;m not just asserting; I&#39;m arguing.&quot;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 14pt;\">By the way,&#0160; &quot;The apple doesn&#39;t fall far from the tree,&quot; as the old folk saying has it.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&quot;There is no evidence because there is no evidence.&quot; Thus some shyster defending Hunter Biden against charges of wrongdoing. I am tempted to call this a presuppositional approach to political apologetics.&#0160; A circular argument is an argument, but because the &#39;diameter&#39; of the circle is zero, it is no better than a bare assertion. It &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2024\/03\/13\/bare-assertion-and-circularity\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Bare Assertion and Circularity&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[113,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-885","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-logica-utens","category-political-apologetics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/885","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=885"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/885\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=885"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=885"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=885"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}