Bravo! BRAVO! and MOLTO BRAVISSIMO!!!!

Thanks,

PED

-----Original Message-----
From: Michael Kischner <[log in to unmask]>
To: [log in to unmask] <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Monday, October 18, 1999 6:15 PM
Subject: Re: query: begs the question


>To beg the question has indeed meant to commit a logical fallacy of the
>kind Martha Kolln and others have been illustrating.  I'm afraid that the
>other meaning -- essentially, to raise the question -- is spreading like
>wildfire, probably because it soundsd more elegant to say beg than raise.
>I've had letters to the editor published on the subject.  My last one I
>ended by more or less giving up but wishing that the press wouldn't hasten
>the shift.  I wrote that, when a wave of ignorance starts sweepping across
>this land, there is finally no stopping it, but that one doesn't have to
>swim out to meet it.  So I am going to hold with "beg the question" as a
>logical fallacy but reach deep into myself for reserves of charity to
>direct to those who use it the other way.