Russia agreed to declare war on Japan after the surrender of Germany and in return FDR and Churchill promised the USSR concession in Manchuria and the territories that it had lost in the Russo-Japanese War.
Description of Begging the Question Begging the Question is a fallacy in which the premises include the claim that the conclusion is true or (directly or indirectly) assume that the conclusion is true. This sort of reasoning typically has the following form.
'Beg the question' is a phrase from formal logicâit's a 16th century translator's rendering of Aristotle's 'petitio principii'. A better translation would have been assume the conclusion.. It makes more sense in a newer version of the phrase.