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Death Wish?
"Joe" wrote in message
ups.com... 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? -- "j" ganz @@ www.sailnow.com |
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