>>24471597 (OP)
>Indeed,
>had had
>Not a good look
>>24472136
Yes but you can just use a contraction before it to make it sound less funky as
>>24472136
points out. Normally I am a big fan of the pluperfect but this one annoys me.
>>24472507
>Ignorance is actually progressive
>>24471723
I'm sorry you've never taken a rhetoric or debate class. "Begging the question" is a term for when an argument uses its premise to justify the conclusion. It's a type of erroneous, circular logic, such as:
>We know the napkin religion is the one true religion, because it says right there on the napkin that it is the one true religion.
My wife the other day employed a nice little flourish to use the term in its popular, incorrect sense while not actual being incorrect, saying something like "This begs one to ask the question [...]." I suppose doing this this splits the difference. Personally, when I think there's general misunderstanding about a term, I typically just avoid it.
