On Sat, Sep 06, 2003 at 09:36:11AM -0400, Walter Landry wrote:
> That just begs the question: If they have no influence on the GFDL,

Aieee.  I see this all the time.

"Begging the question" means "assuming the truth of that which was to be
shown" -- in other words, treating your conclusion as a premise.

It doesn't mean "this necessarily imples that we examine the
propostion that...".

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