[riversarewet]

"If you start from the premise that the message was right, which we do, then the problem was that it wasn't getting out to the people," said one official of the Democratic Party who spoke on condition that his name not be used.

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Shall I tell them or should you, or better yet, just let them keep thinking that?

[1john2 3and4]

"If you start from the premise that the message was right, which we do, then the problem was that it wasn't getting out to the people,"

i vote for letting them go on and think that.

[Sir Francis Dashwood]

If you start from the premise that the message was right, which we do,...

Informal fallacy: begging the question...

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"If you start from the premise that the message was right, which we do, then the problem was that it wasn't getting out to the people," said one official of the Democratic Party who spoke on condition that his name not be used.

Formal fallacy in logic. (If/then statement. Premise statement used in propositional logic - - invalid form. Truth table shows two true premises leading to a false conclusion. If p, then q. Not q, therefore p.)