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Sometimes they can also be constituent parts mean, i.e. the words “inerrancy” and petito principii, or what is called “begging the question,” that “autographs?” is, assuming in the statement or question what really has yet We know that the statement cannot be found before the to be proven. “Don’t you believe in the ‘inerrancy’ of the nineteenth century because that is when the Oxford English original autographs?” is such a question. It is a loaded Dictionary informs us that the word “inerrancy” was first question as well as a question-begging question. It can only employed for theological purposes. Prior to that it had been be answered, really, yes or no; and it assumes the correctness a word used within scientific writing, namely, astronomy. It of the language of the phrase prior to establishing whether was a term used to describe the