Slippery Slopes and Begging Other Questions

Quick – what’s the difference between begging the question and raising the question?

If you’re not sure, and especially if you’ve never even thought there was a difference, you need to brush up on rhetorical tricks and logical fallacies before you wade out into debates.

Start here.

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