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This certainly begs the question as to whether she sought out the FCC position in hopes of directing Federal money towards projects like hers. It seems like sh
by khawkins 7y ago
This certainly begs the question as to whether she sought out the FCC position in hopes of directing Federal money towards projects like hers. It seems like she was desperate to cover up her fraud for 2 years, and especially around the time she took her post in the FCC.
- peterwwillis 7y agohttps://english.stackexchange.com/questions/16137/begs-the-question-or-raises-the-question#16138 https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/16137/begs-the-q...
- scott_s 7y agoWe lost. You'll feel better if you give up, too.
- zaroth 7y agoHonesty it makes more sense in the modern usage. Assuming something which should have been proven seems like the opposite of begging for [someone to ask] a question.
- everybodyknows 7y agoIn the original idiom, the "begging" is for acceptance of the speaker's claim on its face, rather than by "earning" agreement with supporting evidence and reasoning.
- thaumasiotes 7y agoThe "begging" is a mistranslation of medieval Latin petitio, "logical postulate", as if it were classical Latin petitio, "begging". The idiom descends in a continuous scholarly tradition from Aristotle and his original Greek refers more plainly to "assuming the original [conclusion]". See https://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=2290 https://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=2290 .
- peterwwillis 7y agoOh I'm not trying to feel better, I'm trying to help people understand why they say the things they say. And a lot of people don't know about rhetoric.
- scott_s 7y agoI don't think what you linked has anything to do with why. The why is straight-forward: what the phrase means in formal logic is not intuitive, and how people use the phrase colloquially is intuitive.