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Regress (Noun)

Returning to a former state.

Nouns denoting acts or actions.

The reasoning involved when you assume the conclusion is true and reason backward to the evidence.

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents.

The politician's speech was criticized for its use of regress, where she assumed her policies were the best solution and then selectively presented facts to support her claim.
In the trial, the prosecutor was accused of using regress to build a case against the defendant, starting with the assumption of guilt and then cherry-picking evidence to fit that narrative.
The professor warned her students against the dangers of regress in scientific research, where a hypothesis is assumed to be true and then data is manipulated to support it.
The journalist's article was criticized for its use of regress, where she assumed a particular conclusion and then presented only those facts that supported it, while ignoring contradictory evidence.
The detective's investigation was flawed because he used regress, assuming the suspect was guilty and then working backward to find evidence to fit that assumption, rather than following the evidence where it led.