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This is a post on a personal blog by a brilliant young man who does not appear to be a native English speaker.

Assume that nobody edited or even fact-checked his post. Only judge the ideas there on their own merits.

Begs the question has established another use.

Pedants may want to switch to petitio principii.

You received downvotes because your comment is a middlebrow dismissal. You sieze a single snippet and use that to dismiss the entire submission.

Have you read the rest of the submission? It is likewise a bit of a mess. I believe that my assessment informed partly by this item was more or less accurate.

Wants to sound smart, so tries to discredit the author with irrelevant criticism and pedantry.

Correct, I was a bit too narrow with my criticism. This article is a complete mess, not just that one phrase. It adds very little to a discussion of this topic and is all around poorly formed as is foreshadowed by a poor phrase choice early in the article.

Those of us who studied philosophy seriously can tell from the content of the article that the author has not. Thus, it's pretty trivial that he misuses a technical logic term.