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The bare assertion fallacy is a fallacy in formal logic where a premise in an argument is assumed to be true merely because it says that it is true.
One form of the fallacy may be summarized as follows:
- Fact 1: X claims statement A.
- Fact 2: X claims that X is not lying.
- Conclusion: Therefore, A is true.
Put into practice, this fallacy would read:
- Fact 1: A website says that pigs can fly.
- Fact 2: The same website says that it is true.
- Conclusion: Therefore, pigs can fly.
See also
- Opaque context
- Transitivity of identity
- Ontological argument (this fallacy as it relates to religion)
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