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Re:Times Pulls Article Blaming Encryption in Paris Terror At... by tertius on Tuesday November 17, 2015 @04:03PM (#10583929)
How does it beg the question?

There is no truth being asserted in the premise causing the conclusion to be true. It's fairly clear that it was a statement from an original source, that source being trustworthy is where we would find (or not find) the information which would show the conclusion to be true, not the premise of the 'fantasy.'

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Re:Times Pulls Article Blaming Encryption in Paris Terror At... by vidarh on Tuesday November 17, 2015 @04:30PM (#10584094)
Give it up. In 30+ years of learning English, the only times I've ever seen it used in that sense has been when someone is being a pedant on forums and illustrating the now rapidly outmoded meaning of the phrase.
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Re:Times Pulls Article Blaming Encryption in Paris Terror At... by dsfyu404ed on Tuesday November 17, 2015 @11:06PM (#10585857)
In 20+ years of learning English I've heard it used several times to refer to an obvious question or lack of information

"$noun did $verb which resulted in $result and $result is $something interest which begs the question $question."

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Re:Times Pulls Article Blaming Encryption in Paris Terror At... by conceit on Wednesday November 18, 2015 @06:50PM (#10591637)
well, your confusion of tenses kinda colors your knowledge about grammar rather questionable and i say that as a foreign speaker
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Re:Times Pulls Article Blaming Encryption in Paris Terror At... by tertius on Thursday November 19, 2015 @02:20PM (#10596893)
Until it changes meaning, I cannot give it up. A curse I tell you!
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