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To: Gratia
[Gratia]“Begging the question” does not mean what you think it means. The phrase has a specific logical meaning not intended by your use.

[Experts disagreeing with Gratia]Begging the question means "to elicit a specific question as a reaction or response," and can often be replaced with "a question that begs to be answered." -Merriam Webster

[GardenerForLifeI think it means exactly what I think it does... and so it would seem does the rest of the literary world. You might want to dig a little deeper before pointing that finger...
36 posted on 02/26/2021 8:03:13 AM PST by GardenerForLife
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To: GardenerForLife

You said you were using logic, and you used a very specific term of logic incorrectly.

If what you meant was a bastardized and non-sensical meaning for a logical term, then you were not getting to the point as you promised, but creating confusion.

Merriam-Webster is not the rest of the literary world, and it is a very poor reference, because it gets the term just as wrong as you, as it does with other words.


53 posted on 02/26/2021 10:12:57 AM PST by Gratia
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