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by knorker 1813 days ago
I've spoken and written English for over three decades, and this is the first time I've seen "begging the question" be used to mean this.

It's usually meant as "raises the question", but language lawyers insist it means what the wiki page said.

But this is neither of those two. And if you're the only one who uses a phrase a certain way, and it means other things to everyone else, then that's actually wrong, even in a descriptive language.