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1911 Encyclopædia Britannica, Volume 10… (1911)

Accent, which occurs only in speaking and consists of emphasizing the wrong word in a sentence (“He is a fairly good pianist,” according to the emphasis on the words, may imply praise of a beginner’s progress, or an expert’s depreciation of a popular hero, or it may imply that the person in question is a deplorable violinist) .
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1911 Encyclopædia Britannica, Volume 10… (1911)

Petitio principii (begging the question) or Circulus in probando (arguing in a circle) , which consists in demonstrating a conclusion by means of premises which presuppose that conclusion. Jeremy Bentham points out that this fallacy may lurk in a single word, especially in an epithet, e.g. if a measure were condemned simply on the ground that it is alleged to be “un-English”; (5) Fallacy of the Consequent, really a species of (3) , wherein a conclusion is drawn from premises which do not really support it
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