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The fallacy of the '''stolen concept''', also known as the fallacy of the '''self-negating statement''', is the [[logical fallacy]] of implicitly affirming what one wants to disprove or, alternatively, implicitly denying what one wants to prove. That is, the [[conclusion]] [[contradiction|contradicts]] one of the [[premise]]s. An example is the [[postmodernism|postmodernist]] claim to know objectively that objective knowledge is impossible.
==References==
*[http://www.goodart.org/stolen.htm Stolen Concept]
[[Category:Logical Fallacies]]
==References==
*[http://www.goodart.org/stolen.htm Stolen Concept]
[[Category:Logical Fallacies]]