English Usage - beg - English editing.

The original meaning of the phrase beg the question belongs to the field of logic and is a translation of Latin petition principii, literally meaning ‘laying claim to a principle’, i.e. assuming something that ought to be proved first, as in the following sentence: by devoting such a large budget to Civics, we are begging the question of its usefulness. For some people this is still the only correct meaning. However, over the last 100 years or so another, more general use has arisen; ‘invite an obvious question’, as in some definitions of mental illness beg the question of what constitutes normal behaviour.This is by far the commoner use today and is widely accepted in modern standard English.
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