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[–] [Deleted] 0 points (+0|-0)

What question?

[–] yeti 0 points (+0|-0)

The one that was raised when someone said "misuse."

[–] [Deleted] 0 points (+0|-0)

You're not making sense.

[–] yeti 0 points (+0|-0)

Yes I am, you're just not thinking hard enough. It's humor. "Beg the question" is a very commonly misused phrase in modern American English vernacular. People use it to mean "raise the question." It actually is a technical term from semantic logic which means to fallaciously try to prove a thing by indirectly assuming it's true. "God exists and is the omnipotent Supreme Being." "How do you know?" "Because it says so right there in the Bible." "How do you know that the Bible is factual?" "Because it's the Word of God, who is the omnipotent Supreme Being, so it can't be false!" Circular reasoning.