"Begging the Question" and its proper use as a Logical Fallacy

Currently, many people use the phrase, “begging the question” to mean that something needs to be questioned, or that such and such is a question that need to be answered. But for those trained in classical Logic, this is a misuse of the phrase. Aristotle defined this fallacy in his Prior Analytics (Bk. II xvi 64b28–65a26) stating that such a fallacy occurs when one begs or assumes the point to be proven. In other words, the conclusion of an argument is assumed to be true, u...