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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.



You’d think that, but we pedants managed to rescue the word “ironic” at one point.


But you've figuratively lost "literally".


That's just highly advanced irony; using the word "literally" non-literally.


>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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