Begged question

 

          Begging the question does not mean to bring up the question.  It means to present as true a premise that requires proof--i.e., taking a conclusion for granted before it is proved or assuming in the premises of your argument what is supposed to be proved in the conclusion.  (This fallacy is related to the circular argument.)

          And when President Bush calls it "revisionist history" whenever anyone questions whether intelligence was manipulated to justify the invasion, he is also begging the question. The only way to argue that intelligence was not manipulated would be to show that it was not.  Simply saying such questions are "revisionist history," is not answering the questions, but evading them.

Chanes writes: Raul Hilberg’s “The Destruction of the European Jews” is presented as the â€œdefinitive” history of the Holocaust. “Definitive”? To whom? Yes, the book, a truly comprehensive early effort, was the first to have facts and figures, but it is deeply flawed.

http://www.forward.com/articles/134058/

Lies and Provocation
How We Should Approach Holocaust Memoir and Fiction

By Jerome A. Chanes

Published December 17, 2010, issue of December 31, 2010.

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