snowdenscold Wrote:
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> Really??? Wrote:
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> > Fewer than 1% of nighttime drivers are stopped
> by
> > the police, and fewer than 1% of them are
> stopped
> > multiple times. Which begs the question...
> >
> > What the fuck are you doing to attract their
> > attention????!!!!
>
>
> Or does it raise the question?
From
http://begthequestion.info/
To beg the question does not mean "to raise the question." (e.g. "It begs the question, why is he so dumb?") This is a common error of usage made by those who mistake the word "question" in the phrase to refer to a literal question. Sadly, the error has grown more and more common with time, such that even journalists, advertisers, and major mass media entities have fallen prey to "BTQ Abuse."
Begging the question is a specific logical fallacy in which the proposition to be proven is assumed implicitly or explicitly in the premise.*
Which raises the question, should the formal study of rhetoric and logic be added to the public school curriculum?
*Definition shamelessly stolen from Wikipedia.