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<div style="text-align:center">I'm a conservative Republican that lives in Pennsylvania. I attended Glenn Beck's rally in Washington, D.C.</div>
 
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<span style="text-decoration:blink; font-size:20px">{{PAGENAME}} has been vandalized by Willy on Wheels!</span><div style="text-align:center">I'm a conservative Republican that lives in Pennsylvania. I attended Glenn Beck's rally in Washington, D.C.</div>
 
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"Begging the question" is a form of logical fallacy in which a claim is automatically assumed to be true without evidence other than the statement or claim itself. It is also known as a form of [[circular reasoning]].
 
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The phrase is commonly confused with "raising the question," an error that has gained traction through incorrect popular usage.<ref>http://www.worldwidewords.org/qa/qa-beg1.htm</ref>
 
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== Examples ==
 
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*"If such actions were not illegal, then they would not be prohibited by the law."
 
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*Person 1:"He is very ugly."
 
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:Person 2: Why do you say that?"
 
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:Person 1: "Because he is so unattractive."
 
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==References==
 
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<small><references/></small>
 
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[[Category:Logical Fallacies]]
 
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[[Category:Pages vandalized by Willy on Wheels]]
 

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