I don't think we're ever going to get the real meaning of "begging the question" back. I think it's time to let it go.
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I don't think I've ever heard anyone use the word "beg" to mean what it means in that phrase *outside* that phrase. Frankly, I think the current popular meaning (~= "raises the question", "begs for the question to be answered") makes more sense with current usage.
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Just to put this out there, a study of a modern corpus of 1.9 billion words found that “begs the question” was used to mean “raises the question” 90% of the time. https://stancarey.wordpress.com/2015/12/09/raising-the-question-of-beg-the-question/ … Which I think raises the question, “At what usage threshold does a phrase’s meaning change?”
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My beef with it is that the original meaning concisely expresses a useful concept that is now being taken away by idiots.
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Disagree that’s most infuriating.
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