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Not trying to be a dick, but I thought you'd want to know http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Begging_the_question http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Begging_the_question
by kirubakaran 15y ago
Not trying to be a dick, but I thought you'd want to know http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Begging_the_question http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Begging_the_question
- pyre 15y agoIt's more helpful just to say s/begs the question/raises the question/ In most cases, that's what is really meant.
- danso 15y agoThis is such a pressing concern that someone registered a domain for it: http://begthequestion.info/ http://begthequestion.info/
- kls 15y agoThanks for the info on it, it is a common colloquialism in my region, the US south east. I was using it, in what is described as the modern usage in the link that was provided in one of the other posts. I did not know that it was used as a term to describe a logical fallacy. It's usage in my region could be inferred to mean: It is an important question that should be asked and not that it assets that the sentence to follow is true.