beg the question
Verb
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Verb
beg the question
- (philosophy, logic, law) To engage in the logical fallacy of begging the question (petitio principii).
- To sidestep or fail to address a question.
- To raise or prompt a question.
- Three people were hurt in the fire at the warehouse last night, which begs the question: what were they doing there in the first place?
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