(April 13, 2018 at 11:59 am)Grandizer Wrote:(April 13, 2018 at 8:57 am)Mathilda Wrote: What's it supposed to be then? I've heard people use this expression for as long as I can remember. Maybe it's more usual in Britain? I've always taken it to mean, that one feels compelled to wonder about something specifically implied by something else.
Colloquially speaking, you can say "begs the question". It's just that, philosophically, it has a specific meaning ("assume the conclusion in the premises of the argument"). I personally say "raises the question" when I want to mean what you're referring to.
Me too, ever since I learnt that... so I used to say 'it begs the question' a lot in that situation but now only ever say, almost obsessively, 'it raises the question'.
