"...it begs the question...."

Another widely misunderstood and misused phrase, and subordinate clause, offended by general public and learned alike, is the phrase "It begs the question."

Begging the question is NOT to say, "The issue at hand demands we ask the following question..."

Begging the question is an accusation that someone has made a kind of logical fallacy in presenting an argument.

Someone makes a proposition and is asked to justify the reason or logic behind it, that lead to the conclusion.

The proposer then gives their reason or logic, but this is found to be a mere repitition of their proposal and NOT the logic that lead to the proposition.

Thus the proposer has "begged the question".

In other words, after hearing their reasoning and their logic, the question demanding their logic still stands.

Their explanation demands the question still needs to be answered, "what was your logic?"

Their explanation begs the original question; it is yet to be answered.

People please, get it right.