What the Hell Does “Beg the Question” Actually Mean?

And why does it annoy everyone so much?

It’s WILDLY out of fashion (like, a hundred years out of fashion!) to complain about a usage that has changed in the natural cut and thrust of language, so I won’t. But I will say that what “Begging the question” used to mean is quite useful and quite interesting, whereas what it mostly means now (“Raising…