C40092-Day09-循环论证谬误

2、Sean

Premise: Criminal minds cannot be rehabilitated, so the prisons are wasting time and resources.

Sub-premise: Prisoners have truly criminal minds cannot be rehabilitated.

Implied premise: Prisoners get nothing from their life in jail.

Conclusion: People who have truly criminal minds cannot be rehabilitated based on their prison experience.

Sean proposed his premise based on the conclusion and he didn’t notice the uncertain relation between criminal minds and rehabilitation.

4、Dorothy

Premise: Bible is the inspired word of God.

Evidence: Bible says in the third chapter of ⅡTimothy that “all scripture is given by inspiration of God.”

Conclusion: People should do what the Bible says.

Dorothy proved Bible is actually divinely inspired through the words of Bible, which is the same as using the existence of one thing to demonstrate the rationality of its existence. The evidence is futile.