Actually, “begs the question”, has come to acquire the second and more popular meaning it has, a synonym for “raises the question”, from what began as misuse eventually becoming accepted as standard use. Remember when a sports reporter’s use of “medal” for “win a medal” at the LA Olympics was initially mocked but was eventually accepted, setting the precedent for the seemingly endless proliferation of nouns being used as verbs?
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Actually, “begs the question”, has come to acquire the second and more popular meaning it has, a synonym for “raises the question”, from what began as misuse eventually becoming accepted as standard use. Remember when a sports reporter’s use of “medal” for “win a medal” at the LA Olympics was initially mocked but was eventually accepted, setting the precedent for the seemingly endless proliferation of nouns being used as verbs?