英语词汇beg the question的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

beg the question. Begging the question doesn’t mean evading the question by giving an indirect answer, as is often assumed. The old phrase, which can be traced back to the 16th century, is the rough equivalent of the logician’s petitio principii and means “to stack the cards in an argument by assuming some- thing that hasn’t been proved before the debate begins.” Beg the question actually means that someone is acting like a beg- gar, asking his opponent to concede the argument at the be- ginning. “O shameless beggar, that craveth no less than the whole controversy to be given him!” an early English author wrote in explaining the term.

词汇	beg the question
词源	beg the question. Begging the question doesn’t mean evading the question by giving an indirect answer, as is often assumed. The old phrase, which can be traced back to the 16th century, is the rough equivalent of the logician’s petitio principii and means “to stack the cards in an argument by assuming some- thing that hasn’t been proved before the debate begins.” Beg the question actually means that someone is acting like a beg- gar, asking his opponent to concede the argument at the be- ginning. “O shameless beggar, that craveth no less than the whole controversy to be given him!” an early English author wrote in explaining the term.
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