Rolf -- you da man!
Based on the literary quality of your epistle below, I will be sure to
call upon your services should I ever need some some organization to be
sokaled.
Carl
On 12/13/10 1:49 PM, Rolf Turner wrote:
On 13/12/2010, at 10:05 PM, Jari Oksanen wrote:
I just wonder why the other supposed "misuse" was completely ignored in this
thread: there are many things in R that are "begging the question" but
nobody dares to ask.
The phrase ``to beg the question'' means to indulge in circular reasoning;
to assume what is to be proven. Unfortunately that meaning is becoming lost
in the wilderness of ignorance that surrounds us, and the phrase is almost
universally used to mean ``to raise the question'' or ``to evince the necessity
of an answer to the question''. The language thus loses subtlety and nuance,
and Newspeak takes over and limits our ability to express our thoughts. And
that is doubleplus ungood! :-)
cheers,
Rolf Turner
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