On this formulation, the very name " relativist fallacy " begs the question against anyone who earnestly ( however mistakenly or not ) holds that there are no " objective facts.

Worse yet, if the being is limitless and boundless in its omniscience, it begs to question how it can " know " how to actualize new information to which it does not already know?

This to which begs the question: Is this God even in existence?

Richard Dawkins is harshly critical of theology, creation and intelligent design in his book The God Delusion in which he contends that an appeal to intelligent design can provide no explanation for biology because it not only begs the question of the designer's own origin ; but an intelligent designer must itself be far more complex and difficult to explain than anything it is capable of designing.

Many English speakers use " begs the question " to mean " raises the question ," or " impels the question ," and follow that phrase with the question raised, for example, " this year's deficit is half a trillion dollars, which begs the question: how are we ever going to balance the budget?

In short, the act of seeming to find omnipotence to be a contradiction-of-terms is founded on the act of conceiving something against which to construct the contradiction: prior to any ‘ act ’, omnipotence is conceived as coherent both with itself and with the possibility of knowledge ( which begs the question of what is the knowledge that constitutes the identifiability of omnipotence-as-a-paradox?

Epistemological solipsists claim that realism begs the question: assuming there is a universe that is independent of the agent's mind, the agent can only ever know of this universe through its senses.

Critics of AC can object that Chalmers begs the question in assuming that all mental properties are sufficiently captured by abstract causal organization.

However, if an equilibrium is unstable it begs the question of how you might get there.

A loop begs the question.

A common and effective response to any homunculus argument is that it begs the question in favor of reductionism.

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LaSalle sales had consistently exceeded Cadillac's since 1933, so the question begs, why did GM decide to drop LaSalle?

However, this response also begs the question given that the above definition of blue in terms of grue and bleen also refers to time.

In a dissenting review from Village Voice, J. Hoberman dismissed the film as " self-important yet insipid ," and asks, " Shattered Glass begs a larger question: What sort of culture elevates Glass for his entertainment value, punishes him for being too entertaining, rewards his notoriety, and then resurrects him again as a moral object lesson?

Critics of presuppositional apologetics claim that it is logically invalid because it begs the question of the " truth " of Christianity and the non -" truth " of other worldviews.

I don't say that the argument begs the questions of ... possible existence ; the charge is too difficult to establish.

It ends tragically one night when, during an argument in which Vicious announces his plans to stop using heroin and return to England, a suicidal Spungen begs him to kill her.

" Ned Kelly fights hard ” but is shot in the legs .“ He begs the Troopers to spare his life, thus falls the last of the Kelly Gang …”

Aghast, Horton begs the Whos to shout to prove their existence, which nearly fails until Jojo comes up with a " think ": the word " YOPP " whose peculiar sound is just enough to reach the jungle creatures ' ears (" The People Versus Horton the Elephant ").

They echo the words with which he has described his own vision of the dying child who `` trembles and begs for mercy -- and there is no mercy ''.

She begs the moon god Nanna to intercede for her because the city of Uruk, under the ruler Lugalanne, has rebelled against Sargon.

Homer is somewhat vague about the precise manner of Ajax's death but does ascribe it to his loss in the dispute over Achilles's shield: when Odysseus visits Hades, he begs the soul of Ajax to speak to him, but Ajax, still resentful over the old quarrel, refuses and descends silently back into Erebus.

Michael Giltz of Entertainment Weekly gave the book a " C -", feeling that " only hardcore fans will be satisfied by this tale " and saying that Jeter's " habit of echoing dialogue and scenes from the film is annoying and begs comparisons he would do well to avoid.

The priest begs God to bless the vessel and protect those who sail in.

Overcome by rage, Ahasuerus leaves the room ; meanwhile Haman stays behind and begs Esther for his life, falling upon her in desperation.

Montag wakes up physically ill and begs Mildred to call in sick for him.

After Midori begs him to release the Cosmos, and Masako berates him for taking them, Takuya reconciles, and lets the Cosmos free.

" Prissy then finds Rhett, and Scarlett begs him to take herself, Wade, Melanie, Beau, and Prissy to Tara.

Hector, in his final moments, begs Achilles for an honorable burial.

The next morning, Hermóðr begs Hel to allow Baldr to ride home with him, and tells her about the great weeping the Æsir have done upon Baldr's death.

There was a reference that Jim Henson tried to sneak into Heaven only for him and Kermit the Frog to end up in a flat rectangle prison ( similar to General Zod in Superman II ) as Kermit begs for them to be released.

After the victory Lugh finds Bres, the half-Fomorian former king of the Tuatha Dé Danann, alone and unprotected on the battlefield, and Bres begs for his life.

To punish this insolence, Latona begs Apollo and Artemis to avenge her against Niobe and to uphold her honor.

Even so, when a dying Humbug begs his friend to mercy kill him, Shang Chi refuses, until he finds that Humbug actually had no qualms to torture Tarantula, if it meant less suffering for Colleen.

Priam begs Achilles to pity him, saying " I have endured what no one on earth has ever done before — I put my lips to the hands of the man who killed my son.

The next day, Homer is dirty and disheveled, and begs Marge to take him back, saying the one thing he can offer her that nobody else can is " complete and utter dependence.

In the 1890 edition, Basil tells Henry how he " worships " Dorian, and begs him not to " take away the one person that makes my life absolutely lovely to me.

In the first stage production, which Beckett oversaw, both are " more shabby-genteel than ragged ... Vladimir at least is capable of being scandalised ... on a matter of etiquette when Estragon begs for chicken bones or money.

Playing a hunch, Alquist threatens to dissect Primus and then Helena ; each begs him to take themselves and spare the other.

* King U of Goryeo adopts the Ming calendar and begs to be invested by the Hongwu Emperor.

She begs him to take care of her and to teach her his skills as a cleaner.