Lager, NOT larger!

[pilgrimhudd]

No. If my experience of hotel food in Cuba in the nineties is anything to go by, they mean the chef does not suggest you actually eat any of it.

It's the first holiday I've been on where I lost weight.

 

[2Beers]

"Begging the question" is a fallacy that assumes the premise in the proposition. It does not mean that a question arises from an observation.

The latter boils my urine.

 

[RichardM]

"Begging the question" is a fallacy that assumes the premise in the proposition. It does not mean that a question arises from an observation.

The latter boils my urine.

To quote wikipedia "In modern vernacular usage, however, begging the question is often used to mean "raising the question" or "suggesting the question" . Maybe you need to accept that language changes over time, boiling **** isn't good for you.

 

[2Beers]

To quote wikipedia "In modern vernacular usage, however, begging the question is often used to mean "raising the question" or "suggesting the question" . Maybe you need to accept that language changes over time, boiling **** isn't good for you.

But that begs the question (screech), what term do we use to replace begging-the-question with?

 

[RichardM]

But that begs the question (screech), what term do we use to replace begging-the-question with?

We could just say "you are talking rubbish" when we hear someone use a phrase that begs the question.

 

[YeastFace]

Sometimes it's both.