Do All Loaded Questions Commit the Fallacy of Begging the Question

question 88

Multiple Choice

Do all loaded questions commit the fallacy of begging the question?

• A)Yes, because they always implicitly contain the conclusion.
• B)Yes, because they always include an unfair bias.
• C)No, because it is always possible to respond to them in a way that gets around their built-in assumptions.
• D)No, because it is usually possible to respond to them in a way that gets around their built-in assumptions.
• E)No, because only arguments commit fallacies, and a question is not an argument.

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