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I think there are many examples where no question-begging premises are involved. For example, in the somewhat canonical example of incorrectly inferring the pre
by mannykannot 3y ago
I think there are many examples where no question-begging premises are involved. For example, in the somewhat canonical example of incorrectly inferring the presence of a disease from a test when the base rate is low [1], the premises are the positive test result, the false-positive and false-negative rates for the test, and whatever premises about statistical reasoning lead to the calculation of the incorrect probability.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Base_rate_fallacy#Example_1:_Disease https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Base_rate_fallacy#Example_1:_D...