BEG THE QUESTION

beg the question: translation

1. to carry on a false argument where one assumes as proved the very point that is being argued, or more loosely, to evade the issue at hand. (Essentially a criticism of someone's line of argument.) •

Stop arguing in circles. You're begging the question.

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A: Why do two lines that are equidistant from one another never meet? B: Because they are parallel. A: You are begging the question.

2. to invite the (following) question. (This reinterpretation of beg the question is incorrect but is currently in widespread use.) •

His complaints beg the question: Didn't he cause all of his problems himself ?

beg the question: translation

about the bush, around the bush, beat about, beat around, bicker, boggle, cavil, choplogic, dodge, duck, equivocate, evade, evade the issue, fence, hedge, hem and haw, mystify, nitpick, obscure, palter, parry, pick nits, prevaricate, pull away, pull back, pussyfoot, put off, quibble, recoil, sheer off, shift, shift off, shrink, shuffle, shy, shy away, shy off, sidestep, split hairs, step aside, swerve, tergiversate, ward off