Begging the question

[loinburger]

Begging the question (or petitio principii, "assuming the initial point") is a logical fallacy in which the proposition to be proved is assumed implicitly or explicitly in the premises.

C'mon people, stop ****ing this up.

[Japher]

I beg to differ.

Still, it's better than "Can I ask you a question?"

[Lorizael]

C'mon people, stop ****ing this up.

You're assuming we are ****ing it up.

[loinburger]

Ah, but your statement begs the question of some goddamned thing that is not an example of begging the question

[DirtyMartini]

Thanks, I didn't know that.

The way I've seen it commonly used is something along the lines of "which leads me to immediately ask this other question".

[Tuberski]

Begging the question (or petitio principii, "assuming the initial point") is a logical fallacy in which the proposition to be proved is assumed implicitly or explicitly in the premises.

C'mon people, stop ****ing this up.

Wish in one hand and **** in the other.

ACK!

[loinburger]

What if I wish for ****?

[Darius871]

You're assuming we are ****ing it up.

Which really begs the question - who gives a ****?

[Dinner]

Then you're in luck.

[Dinner]

X-FEAR! :uzi:

[Kitschum]

I think receiving one you never ask for is a bigger problem.

[BeBMan]

The German Wiki article has a nice example for Petitio principii telling us that (and why) the pope is infallible

Now I'm trying to become teh pope

[loinburger]

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