It's true that people use it that way without issue in everyday conversation, but technically "begging the question" is a logical fallacy in which a statement/p

It's true that people use it that way without issue in everyday conversation, but technically "begging the question" is a logical fallacy in which a statement/proposition presupposes its own truth. See http://begthequestion.info/ http://begthequestion.info/ for further info (and a laugh that this site exists).