Picasso is the greatest artist of the twentieth century. We know that this is so because art critics have described him in these terms. These art critics are correct in their assessment because they have a more keenly developed sense of appreciation than the average person. This is true because it takes a more keenly developed sense of appreciation to realize that Picasso is the greatest artist of the twentieth century.

What type of fallacy can be derived from the statement below:

Picasso is the greatest artist of the twentieth century. We know that this is so because art critics have described him in these terms. These art critics are correct in their assessment because they have a more keenly developed sense of appreciation than the average person. This is true because it takes a more keenly developed sense of appreciation to realize that Picasso is the greatest artist of the twentieth century.

The fallacy is "Begging the Question"

Explanation:

The fallacy of begging the question other wise known as arguing a circle is a term that describes the fallacy in which an individual present an arguments' premise as the truth of the conclusion, instead of giving points to support it. In other words, it is a circular reasoning in which argument's conclusion is assumed or derived from one of its premises.

In this case, the conclusion is assumed or derived from the premises of the argument.

Begging the question

Explanation:

Picasso is the greatest artist of the twentieth century. We know that this is so because art critics have described him in these terms. These art critics are correct in their assessment because they have a more keenly developed sense of appreciation than the average person. This is true because it takes a more keenly developed sense of appreciation to realize that Picasso is the greatest artist of the twentieth century.

The above statement is written in order to find the fallacies in the sentence; The writer or the arguer of the above statement creates an illusion that premises provide adequate support for conclusion, while premise is could possibly be false.It should be noted that the given argument develop illusion which stated that Picasso is the greatest artist of the twentieth century while one of the premise in the statement is that it takes a more keenly developed sense of appreciation to realize that Picasso is the greatest artist of the twentieth century.

Therefore, the argument is begging the question.