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Begging the question has nothing to do with raising a question, it's a type of logical fallacy. And it's also annoying to see misused. /Pedantry

• LanceH 8y ago
  I could also just be a phrase which means just what it seems to mean. Maybe you could point me to the book of allowable phrases. If he used it to describe another logical fallacy, that would be wrong, but in this case it's just a couple words that make sense and also have some other meaning in some other context.
  • bitxbitxbitcoin 8y ago
    The words only make sense because he's likely heard it in the context of the logical fallacy. The words don't "make sense" without that. The couple of words that he'd be looking for would be "begging me to question" or "raises the question."
    • Dylan16807 8y ago
      Try "begs for the question". Then remember that the word "for" is often omitted after the word "beg". "beg your pardon". "beg forgiveness". Taking the phrase as written, outside the idiom for a logical fallacy, the grammar is perfectly adequate.
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