What is the informal fallacy “Begging the Question” in layman’s terms?
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The way I remember is that you need to beg to get your question answered.
A recent example on reddit was someone asked how people determined how many molecules were in a mole.
The answer was get a mole of charged molecules and divide it by the charge of one molecule.
“sure, but how do you know you have a mole of charged molecules?”
Begging the question is usually wrongly used when the answer given leads to a new question, not just having to reask the same.
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