Question

Complete the following sentence.

An assertion or opinion that needs to be proved is called a _______

Answer 1

Answer: begging the question

Step-by-step explanation:

Answer 2

A claim

Step-by-step explanation:

I'm not 100% sure since there can be a lot of different answers for fill in the blank questions like this, but a claim is a statement, assertion, or opinion that isn't necessarily fact based, so you would need to prove it.

(Hopefully that helped!)