In a debate club environment.
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A proper use of “begging the question” involves assuming the final argument goal is simply correct in your reasoning. It’s a kind of circular reasoning, rather than going from facts + logic to conclusions, you are making assumptions in your conclusion that just make it your victory.
For example, my bed sheets are better than yours because they have a higher thread count. That’s my argument. I’m rather assuming that thread count is the measure of what makes linen “good” without explaining it, you are simply expected to already know that and agree with me.
.. As opposed to the “wrong” use of begging the question. Some people say “thing A happened… but that begs the question of what went wrong to cause thing A to happen?” well that’s incorrect. It may be better to say “but that leads to the follow-up question” instead, or something like that.
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