“…I roughly distinguish two ways of assessing begging the question: (i) it is a genuine fallacy, (ii) it is not a genuine fallacy. The former includes Hoffman (1971), Sinnott-Armstrong (1999), Ritola (2001), Truncellito (2004), Walton (2006), Copi et al (2014), and the latter includes Robinson (1971Robinson ( , 1981, Sanford (1972Sanford ( , 1988, Jonathan (1988), Wilson (1988), Sorenson (1991), Lippert-Rasmussen (2001), Hazlett (2006), Woods (2008), McKeon (2016). Although I really know this distinction is too crude to be accepted, I shall not directly assess begging the question itself in this paper.…”