My use of “beg the question”, as opposed to the official way, is the objectively superior use, and I will die on this hill:
Like, come on, it’s the natural English interpretation of what that phrase is supposed to mean. I am (usually metaphorically) begging you to ask the question.
Cat’s already out the bag on this one. Give in to the dark side. We have cookies.
There’s already a good term for the other meaning: “assume the conclusion”. This tells you pretty clearly what it means. You don’t have to think to figure it out. A child can understand what it means.
I actually doubt people frequently assume the conclusion without realizing it? But possibly this is me being weird and not doing it a lot. Even in math, I feel like it’s blatantly obvious when you do so, so that the closest you get is having you math-proof-babbler only be able to come up with things that assume the conclusion, which then get recognized as obviously not working for that reason.
My use of “beg the question”, as opposed to the official way, is the objectively superior use, and I will die on this hill:
Like, come on, it’s the natural English interpretation of what that phrase is supposed to mean. I am (usually metaphorically) begging you to ask the question.
Cat’s already out the bag on this one. Give in to the dark side. We have cookies.
There’s already a good term for the other meaning: “assume the conclusion”. This tells you pretty clearly what it means. You don’t have to think to figure it out. A child can understand what it means.
I actually doubt people frequently assume the conclusion without realizing it? But possibly this is me being weird and not doing it a lot. Even in math, I feel like it’s blatantly obvious when you do so, so that the closest you get is having you math-proof-babbler only be able to come up with things that assume the conclusion, which then get recognized as obviously not working for that reason.