This post is Part 6 of my continuing series, How to Talk to Relatives about Family Dysfunction. The posts provide win-win strategies for overcoming chronic repetitive problematic interactions between ...

One meaning of the term "beg" is "to take for granted without justification." To "beg the question," then, is to attempt to answer a question, by taking for granted, or assuming without justification, ...

Let us try to straighten out this rigmarole. The President says he cannot assent to the Bills unless the AG issues an assent certificate. And the AG says he cannot issue an assent certificate unless ...

Begging the question is often hidden in an entire series of statements that somehow lead right back to the first one as if it had already been proved. Thus, begging the question is the basis of ...