For me, it may be that the toilet paper roll needs to have the open end away from the wall. I don’t want to reach under the roll to take a piece! That’s ludicrous!
That or my recent addiction to correcting people when they use “less” when they should use “fewer”
Begging the Question is a logical fallacy, a circular argument. So when a position brings a question to mind that is other than a challenge to its validity, it raises the question.
A “moot point” originally meant the point was salient/still open for debate.
…and a forgone conclusion (a Shakespearean phrase) used to mean a conclusion that could be ruled out as implausible.
Just because someone says something begs the question doesn’t mean they’re talking about the logical fallacy though. Like, if I said “I turned down the million dollars,” wouldn’t that really beg you to ask why? It begs for context.
That said, I do admit that I use “raise the question” when I’m not referring to the fallacy just because I don’t want to deal with explaining that people can say a phrase and not mean the fallacy. It just sounds like a cop out after the fact lol.