Loaded question
Only when some of these presuppositions are not necessarily agreed to by the person who is asked the question does the argument containing them become fallacious.For example, the previous question would not be loaded if it were asked during a trial in which the defendant had already admitted to beating his wife.To use an earlier example, a good response to the question "Have you stopped beating your wife?"However, the asker may respond to a challenge by accusing the one who answers of dodging the question.Diogenes Laërtius wrote a brief biography of the philosopher Menedemus in which he relates that:[6] [O]nce when Alexinus asked him whether he had left off beating his father, he said, "I have not beaten him, and I have not left off;" and when he said further that he ought to put an end to the doubt by answering explicitly yes or no, "It would be absurd," he rejoined, "to comply with your conditions, when I can stop you at the entrance.