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Re:Philosophy as a public service by jcims on Thursday January 02, 2020 @12:51PM (#21937734)
The problem is 'begs the question' is not an intuitive phrase to describe the formal definition, so we're going to be stuck with this correction forever.

At this point I feel it has only survived as a form of shibboleth.

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Re:Philosophy as a public service by philwelch on Thursday January 02, 2020 @02:26PM (#21938773)
You’d think that, but we pedants managed to rescue the word “ironic” at one point.
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Re:Philosophy as a public service by GauntletWizard on Thursday January 02, 2020 @06:14PM (#21941000)
But you've figuratively lost "literally".
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Re:Philosophy as a public service by philwelch on Saturday January 04, 2020 @12:27AM (#21953066)
That's just highly advanced irony; using the word "literally" non-literally.
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Re:Philosophy as a public service by throwlaplace on Thursday January 02, 2020 @02:01PM (#21938527)
>The problem is 'begs the question' is not an intuitive phrase to describe the formal definition

it does if you look at the etymology; beg comes begging off i.e. asking for exemption from something. it's archaic at this point of course but still fairly intelligible in that use; "he begged off doing his chores".

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