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You can mean what you want, but in this case you're using an important idiom from philosophy to mean something else. People will pick you up on it. Best to say
by callumlocke 9y ago
You can mean what you want, but in this case you're using an important idiom from philosophy to mean something else. People will pick you up on it. Best to say "raises the question" if that's what you mean.
- scott_s 9y agoWe lost this fight a while ago. I see and hear "begs the question" to mean "raise the question" from all sorts of media.
- mhb 9y agoAnd people don't pick up after their dogs.
- umanwizard 9y agoOh, I do say "raises the question", because I'm aware of this debate and I want to head off language pedantry. That doesn't mean I don't disagree with said pedantry. I've literally never seen a usage of "begs the question" that couldn't be immediately disambiguated by context.