For decades, the University of Don't Beg the Question has maintained the goal of teaching about this fallacy. "Begging the question" is one of the classic informal fallacies in Aristotle's Prior Analytics. Some modern authors consider begging the question to be a species of circulus in probando (Latin, "circle in proving") or circular reasoning. Were it not begging the question, the missing premis
e would render the argument viciously circular, and while never persuasive, arguments of the form "A therefore A" are logically valid. Thus, one could "fix" the fallacy by essentially taking the conclusion as given in the premises, but that would be uncharitable insofar as it ruins any rhetorical value in the original performance of an informal argument.
