Begging the Question

Begging the Question: Often called circular reasoning, begging the question occurs when the believability of the evindence depends on the believability of the claim. On other words, one assumes a statement to be true when it has not been proven to be so.

Example:
Does he, while ploughing, break a plough,-or, while hoeing, break a hoe? It is owing to his carelessness, and for it a slave must always be whipped."

This is begging the question because we don't really know if someone actually got whipped for breaking a hoe. We think this is true because throught the book we see how people got whipped for not doing anything wrong.