[MD] [Bulk] Re: desires

[MarshaV]

On Mar 23, 2011, at 11:13 AM, david buchanan wrote:

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> Ron said to Marsha:
> ...Then these are simply empty words begging the question "so what?"
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> Marsha replied:
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> Begging the question "so what?"  I would never beg a question from you, Ron. I suppose my response was as inconsequential as your advice to "turn towards static patterns."
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> dmb says:
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> Sigh.
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> Marsha's inability to use the English language is conspicuously on display once again. As any decent dictionary will show, to say she is "begging the question" is another way to say she is side-steppping the issues, avoiding the question, evading the actual point in dispute, or, more properly, it means that she is assuming the truth of the very thing that is being questioned and otherwise treating the the point of contention as if it were already a settled premise.
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> In this case, begging has nothing to do with a humble plea or a desperate request. 
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Marsha to dmb:
Speaking of inconsequential posts, that is how I find most of yours: dangling quotes, indignation and whining.   


 
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