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When the fallacy of begging the question is committed in a single step, it is sometimes called a hysteron proteron, as in the statement " Opium induces sleep because it has a soporific quality ".

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When the fallacy of begging the question is committed in more than one step, it is sometimes referred to as circulus in probando or reasoning in a circle but incorrectly so, if this fallacy is considered under the definition Aristotle gave in Prior Analytics.

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