Begging the question
Sep. 12th, 2003 07:17 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
yendiI'm starting to put "begging the question" up there with confusing "you're" and "your" on my list of writing annoyances. Most people correctly consider the latter to be a sign of Laurell K. Hamitonian levels of sloppiness, but the former crops up in otherwise respectable places. The latest sinner is the blog of one of my gigs, Bookslut (although there's a guest blogger this week, so I don't need to cast any aspersions on my editor).
For the record: "Begging the question" is an action by itself. It does not have an object. It's a logical fallacy in which a person assumes the conclusion of their argument to be true in their premises.
If you must have an object, try raising the question instead of begging it.
For the record: "Begging the question" is an action by itself. It does not have an object. It's a logical fallacy in which a person assumes the conclusion of their argument to be true in their premises.
If you must have an object, try raising the question instead of begging it.