How to pronounce “beg the question”

Meaning

• [Verb]
• (philosophy, logic, law) To engage in the logical fallacy of begging the question (petitio principii).
• To sidestep or fail to address a question.
• (sometimes proscribed) To raise or prompt a question.

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