Thread of my semantic pet hates that if I always pointed out would lose me friends. Join in! First up: I hate when people say "tenant", meaning a resident or occupier, when the person means "tenet", meaning a foundation stone of a belief
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I hear it all the time, most recently from Sean Carroll on his Mindscape podcast with Dan Dennett.
So tell me what the difference is between begs the question and raises the question
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Begging_the_question … vs. something causing a question to be raised.
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I hate when people use "anymore" at the beginning of a sentence, just to indicate "nowadays" when it really only works properly in a specifically negative sense. If this doesn't make sense, somebody please ask me to clarify. :-)
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