单词 | question-begging |
释义 | > as lemmasquestion-begging question-begging adj. and n. ΚΠ 1824 J. Bentham & P. Bingham Bk. Fallacies iv. i. 213 (heading) Fallacies of Confusion, the object of which is, to perplex, when Discussion can no longer be avoided...Question-begging appellatives. 1910 A. Sidgwick Applic. Logic vii. 217 Question-begging in the extended sense..occurs just so far as any attempt is made on the part of either disputant to prevent question-raising. 1957 Times Lit. Suppl. 27 Dec. 782/2 He is not above question-begging in the most ingenuous way. 2000 P. Millican in A. Hastings et al. Oxf. Compan. Christian Thought 499/2 It is hard to see any point in an argument for God's existence starting from the apparently question-begging premiss that God has revealed himself as having a certain nature. < as lemmas |
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