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tangent: this is the second time today I've seen an HN commenter use "begging the question" with its original meaning. I'm sorry to distract with a non-helpful
by danso 2y ago
tangent: this is the second time today I've seen an HN commenter use "begging the question" with its original meaning. I'm sorry to distract with a non-helpful reply, it's just I can't remember the last time I've seen that phrase in the wild to refer to a logical fallacy — even begsthequestion.info [0] has given up the fight.
(I don't mind language evolving over time, but I also think we need to save the precious few phrases we have for describing logical fallacies)
[0] https://web.archive.org/web/20220823092218/http://begthequestion.info/ https://web.archive.org/web/20220823092218/http://begtheques...