Frédéric Bastiat：Economic Sophisms, Excerpt 272

A celebrated modern philosopher has added to the categories of Aristotle the sophism which consists in employing a phrase which includes a _petitio pinncipii_. He gives many examples of it; and he should have added the word tributary to his list. The business, in fact, is to discover whether purchases made from foreigners are useful or hurtful. They are hurtful, you say. And why? Because they render us tributaries to the foreigner. This is just to use a word which implies the very thing to be proved.

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