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beg the question 1. if a statement or situation begs the question, it causes you to ask a particular question. It's all very well talking about extra staff but it rather begs the question of how we're going to pay for them. 2. if something that someone says begs the question, it suggests that something is true which might in fact be false. We're assuming, are we, that Anthony will still be in charge this time next year? That rather begs the question, doesn't it? beg the question 1. to cause a particular question to be asked. Cyber adventurers can even climb a mountain, which begs the question of how can someone at a keyboard take a hike? 2. to fail to answer a particular question. Everyone agrees we have to cut spending, but this proposal begs the question, What do we cut? |
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While the circumstances beg the question "How do these insane things happen? Is this a distinction without a difference or does it beg the question that he is participating in a great and vast idealism whose attempt to regain the world is doomed at the start? The bleak market conditions beg the question of how one can discover value in development parcels these days. |
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