| Webster's Online Dictionary |
| Expressions | Domain | Definition | |
| Begging the Question | Literature | Assuming a proposition which, in reality, involves the conclusion. Thus, to say that parallel lines will never meet because they are parallel, is simply to assume as a fact the very thing you profess to prove. The phrase is a translation of the Latin term, petitio principii, and was first used by Aristotle. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. | |
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