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I still can't quite wrap my head around how the 'correct' meaning makes sense. Who is begging what? Why?
by hoseja 6y ago
I still can't quite wrap my head around how the 'correct' meaning makes sense. Who is begging what? Why?
- srtjstjsj 6y agoThe prober is begging that the proposition (question) be granted for free, without a valid proof.
- ewzimm 6y agoIn the traditional relationship, the student is begging the teacher. In general, the person making an argument is begging you to accept their point instead of arguing it. The question is the point of contention. If we are arguing about Windows or Linux and I say that Linux is better designed because it has a clearly superior architecture, I'm begging the question because I'm just asking you to accept it instead of supporting my argument. Also, I wonder if the misunderstanding of the term has prompted many people to start looking into formal logic. In our linked world, I could imagine people looking something like that up after they hear it's misused and finding information about a lot of related issues around logic.
- hoseja 6y agoThanks, what convoluted logic.