(June 24, 2016 at 4:57 pm)Gemini Wrote:(June 24, 2016 at 8:41 am)Drich Wrote: ...
so that beggs the question how do you tell a 300 dollar week broom pusher that he is not smart/skilled enough to make what the top guy makes?
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Begging the question is a logical fallacy in which what is to be proved by an argument is assumed in the premises. I think you mean "raises the question."
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begging the question also has a mordern/secondary defination as well:
Modern usage
Many English speakers use beg the question to mean "bear the question", "raise the question", "evade the question", or even "ignore the question", and follow that phrase with the question, for example: "I weigh 120 kg and have severely clogged arteries, which begs the question: why have I not started exercising?" In philosophical, logical, grammatical, and legal contexts, some commenters believe that such usage is mistaken, or at best, unclear.[1][25][26][27]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Begging_the_question
Bigger pet peeve: Correcting someone when you yourself are ill informed to make such a correction.
