Description: Any form of argument where the conclusion is assumed in one of the premises. Many people use the phrase âbegging the questionâ incorrectly when they use it to mean, âprompts one to ask the questionâ. That is NOT the correct usage. Begging the question is a form of circular reasoning. Logical Forms: Claim X assumes X is true.
Sulphur Emission Control Area. Sulphur Emission Control Areas (SECAs) or Emission Control Areas (ECAs) are sea areas in which stricter controls were established to minimize airborne emissions (SOx, NOx, ODS, VOC) from ships as defined by Annex VI of the 1997 MARPOL Protocol which came into effect in May 2005.
The acronym SEC stands for Securities and Exchange Commission. The basic role of this agency is to ensure that the stock markets operate in a way that is fair to all investors. One of the major things that the SEC is supposed to do is to prevent insider trading. In insider trading, people who know what is going to happen with some business (like that it is going to merge with some other business) use that knowledge to know whether to buy or sell stocks in those firms.