{"id":793,"date":"2024-04-26T13:21:17","date_gmt":"2024-04-26T13:21:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2024\/04\/26\/the-difference-between-posing-and-begging-a-question\/"},"modified":"2024-04-26T13:21:17","modified_gmt":"2024-04-26T13:21:17","slug":"the-difference-between-posing-and-begging-a-question","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2024\/04\/26\/the-difference-between-posing-and-begging-a-question\/","title":{"rendered":"The Difference between Posing and Begging a Question"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 14pt;\">I found the nifty graphic below over at <a href=\"https:\/\/anthonygflood.com\/\/\/2020\/02\/christian-worldview-apologists-dont-beg-questions-we-ask-them\/\">Flood&#39;s place<\/a>.&#0160; It is a pithy and pictorial presentation of a point I have been hammering away at online for the last twenty years. <a href=\"https:\/\/williamfvallicella.substack.com\/p\/on-the-correct-use-of-begging-the?utm_source=publication-search\">Here<\/a> is a <em>Substack<\/em> hammer-job. Some say we should give up the fight and let the forces of linguistic decadence obliterate the distinction between posing and begging a question. I am inclined to say that we should fight on against the anti-civilizational forces while well aware that fighting-on may be nothing more than a pointless <a href=\"https:\/\/www.merriam-webster.com\/dictionary\/rearguard%20action\">rear-guard action<\/a>. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 14pt;\">What say you?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a class=\"asset-img-link\" href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.typepad.com\/.a\/6a010535ce1cf6970c02c8d3ad73aa200c-pi\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Begs the Question\" border=\"0\" class=\"asset  asset-image at-xid-6a010535ce1cf6970c02c8d3ad73aa200c image-full img-responsive\" src=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.typepad.com\/.a\/6a010535ce1cf6970c02c8d3ad73aa200c-800wi\" style=\"display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\" title=\"Begs the Question\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#0160;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I found the nifty graphic below over at Flood&#39;s place.&#0160; It is a pithy and pictorial presentation of a point I have been hammering away at online for the last twenty years. Here is a Substack hammer-job. Some say we should give up the fight and let the forces of linguistic decadence obliterate the distinction &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2024\/04\/26\/the-difference-between-posing-and-begging-a-question\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Difference between Posing and Begging a Question&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[380,381,6,108,247],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-793","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-distinctions","category-informal-fallacies","category-language-matters","category-logica-docens","category-questions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/793","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=793"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/793\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}