People often use it instead of 'raises the question'. E.g "There was very little fallout to the Y2K bug, which begs the question: was the Y2K crisis real and well handled or not really a crisis at all?"
E.g https://hn.algolia.com/?q=%22begs+the+question%22
Wow, now that you pointed this out, that interpretation actually makes far more sense than the “correct” one.
Wow, now that you pointed this out, that interpretation actually makes far more sense than the “correct” one.