"Joe" wrote in message
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On May 21, 2:04 pm, Dave wrote:
On Mon, 21 May 2007 10:11:38 -0700, "Capt. JG"
said:

You need to look up the term "begging the question." It's increasingly
not
understood and misused.

I believe I used it properly. Why do you think I didn't? (Or, am I
begging
another question?)

The generally accepted meaning of "begging the question," at least until
recently, has been a logically fallacious technique of argumentation in
which the proposition to be proved is assumed (generally implicitly) in
one
of the premises. Of late it has become widely misused to mean "invites
the
further question." Perhaps the error has become so widespread that a
descriptivist, at least, would say it's no longer an error.

As I read your statement you were saying, not that Joe was fallaciously
assuming we need a U.S. auto industry (which I don't think he did), but
that
Joe's argument invites the further question whether we need a U.S. auto
industry.

Exaclty.....;0) And we do.

Joe



Why?


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