This book offers a new theory of begging the question as an informal fallacy, within a pragmatic framework of reasoned dialogue as a normative theory of critical argumentation. The fallacy of begging the question is analyzed as a systematic tactic to evad
Origins, preconceptions and problems; contexts of dialogue argument diagramming; shorter case studies; longer case studies; fallacies, faults, blunders and errors; revising the textbooks; a theory of begging the question.