Fallacy Decision-Making

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Fallacy decision making of begging the question has a foundation of how people responds to a critical thinking. When people are trying to solve a problem they put things in a classification to come up with a solution. For me it would be the fallacy of begging the question that influences my decision making. In the second example, the conclusion is begged because of saying that it is: ethically impermissible” to inflict death as punishment for a crime is equivalent to saying the capital punishment is “morally wrong.” The second common form of begging the question involves “circular reasoning.” This occurs when an arguer offers a chain of reasons for a conclusion, where the conclusion of the argument is stated or assumed as one of the premises

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