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Message: [QUOTE="bags27, post: 2169333, member: 6761"] I really shouldn't be the diction police here (I live in a glass house), but someone has got to take a stand (assuming Kib doesn't hop to it) on the extraordinary sudden misuse of "beg the question" everywhere we turn. To beg the question doesn't mean to demand that the question be asked. It actually means something that is nearly the opposite: [I]Begs the question is a term that comes from formal logic. It's a translation of the Latin phrase petitio principii, and it's used to mean that someone has made a conclusion based on a premise that lacks support. [/I]-- from the Web To beg the question means that you don't have enough logical support on your side to draw the conclusion you've drawn, so in effect you are ducking the responsibility (begging off) from the tough logic. [/QUOTE]