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That begs the question, what will you do about it?
by foobarian 3y ago
That begs the question, what will you do about it?
- jonhohle 3y agoBegging the question, he will continue to do nothing.
- whamlastxmas 3y agoIrregardless of begging, they should of been less of a lose cannon with they’re word’s
- dylan604 3y agoI feel like I've been hit by a lose cannon all my life.
- DamnInteresting 3y agoFor all intensive purposes.
- Mordisquitos 3y agoThis is a moot point that should be tabled.
- thrill 3y agoWe'll circle back to that later for readdress.
- WhitneyLand 3y agoThe issue is unpresidented.
- ezekiel68 3y agoThe MCM architecture of the chip can be recognized by the multiple dice beneath the heat spreader.
- magarnicle 3y agoYes, we were not pre-prepared for it.
- JoBrad 3y agoPlease - I can't breath!
- JoBrad 3y agoI've begun borrowing "it's a moo point" from Friends, in some conversations. "It's like a cow's opinion, you know: It doesn't matter. It's moo!"
- arrowsmith 3y agoWhat a way to wreck havoc.
- ilitirit 3y agoI bet he could care less.
- AxEy 3y agoYou beat me to it.
- easeout 3y agoSome men just want to watch the dictionary burn
- Spivak 3y agoNot burn, expand. New usages for words make the dictionary bigger.
- quectophoton 3y agoThat's something only a villain would say.
- vundercind 3y agoAs per prior behavior, the poster’s actions against this will be comprised of nothing.
- nvy 3y agoCould of, would of, should of.
- scoofy 3y agoHopefully, some of the people in this thread understood what you were doing there.
- gizajob 3y agoI’m fairly nonplussed at what has happened to “begging the question” - its usage now is an inversion of its original philosophical meaning as a form of fallacy. It’s common usage is a way of saying “the question arises”.
- lupire 3y agoI sanction this comment.
- margalabargala 3y agoI take objection to the characterization of "begging the question" having a changed/incorrect meaning. I assert that the "original philosophical meaning" is the fad idiom, and the common usage is a true parsing of the words unrelated to the idiom. "This begs the question of why X Y Z" is just a shortening of "this [thing you said] begs [that] the question [be asked] of why X Y Z". I think the only reason there's any discussion about it at all is because the sorts of people who are likely to use the idiom of "begging the question" with regard to logic, are the sort of people who enjoy being pedantic about other people's language, and this presents an opportunity to do so. You could say I'm plussed about the whole thing. It brings up a whelming amount of emotion in me.
- gizajob 3y agoYou might be correct, but it begs the question: where are your citations for that?
- margalabargala 3y agoYou would like a citation that people with an interest in rhetoric and logic tend to be pedantic and more likely to correct others if they see an opportunity to do so? I cite the comment section of https://news.ycombinator.com/news https://news.ycombinator.com/news
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- paulddraper 3y agoExplaining the joke: "Begging the question" is an expression that properly means "assuming the conclusion," i.e. circular reasoning. However, the comment above deliberately uses the incorrect meaning "raising the question."
- Dylan16807 3y agoGood explanation except for the words "proper" and "incorrect".
- happyraul 3y agoThe irony is that we can't be sure of that, since "proper" and "incorrect" may mean something else.