>If we allow that conflation, it then becomes more difficult or requires more words to express what "begging the question" really is. By analogy with Huffman c

>If we allow that conflation, it then becomes more difficult or requires more words to express what "begging the question" really is. By analogy with Huffman coding, the meanings that are used less often should require more words to express than the more commonly-used meanings. And if you really want to express the meaning "assuming the premise", then you could just say "assuming the premise", instead of insisting on the "precision" of using a 16th-century mistranslation of petitio principii.