Begging the Question

In the world of semantic pedantry, I'm all for Oxford commas, and that the proof of the pudding is in the taste, not the pudding itself.  But begging the question, even though its historical definition is that of circular logic, I have to go with the populist misinterpretation.  If you're going through some logic and you come to one thing and there's this other thing that's just yearning to be asked, that seems like begging.  If you're assuming the results of what you're trying to prove and going in circles to prove it, that doesn't seem so much like begging.  It's more like the tail wagging the dog.

—June 8th, 2010

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