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Because most people don’t make totally spontaneous decisions about where to go or eat — some amount of forethought or planning is typically involved — it will be interesting to see how this feature gets used and evolves.

Deactivation of lateral PFC regions is associated with free-floating, defocused attention, allowing spontaneous associations between ideas to arise, and sudden realizations or insights to occur.

Not surprisingly, the frontal regions of the brain that have been shown to be involved in time perception and impulse control are also involved in spontaneous creativity.

In nature, any spontaneous flow between two reservoirs can be harvested to produce power.

Other times, culture emerges by accident, the product of a million spontaneous actions that over time become habits—for better or worse.

The premise of the sketch was that sex was too spontaneous to be regulated, and the quiz show played that idea to the hilt.

Trying to be ordinary, plain-spoken, and spontaneous made it worse.

Odds against chance in a review of spontaneous telepathy studies have been calculated, Radin says, at “22 billion to 1.”

Israelis have also waged a psy-war on Hamas, albeit more informal and spontaneous.

New York in the 1920s was iridescent, and its boom was spontaneous.

Perhaps his almost perfectly spontaneous love of tiny flowers is already a considerable advance on his so-called prototype.

Yet I think if we observe closely we shall detect traces of a spontaneous impulse towards self-adornment.

Spontaneous gaiety was gone out of his cousin, whose attempts to be his normal self became forced and unsuccessful.

In a strict sense, of course, no child's drawing is absolutely spontaneous and independent of external stimulus and guidance.

As far as possible I have sought spontaneous drawings of quite young children, viz., from between two and three to about six.

On this page you'll find 98 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to spontaneous, such as: casual, impromptu, instinctive, offhand, simple, and unplanned.

In each of these, beg the question means "to cause someone to ask a specified question as a reaction or response." What's the beg about? Why isn't it "elicit the question" or "raise the question"?

'Beg the question' is a phrase from formal logic—it's a 16th century translator's rendering of Aristotle's 'petitio principii'. A better translation would have been "assume the conclusion."

It makes more sense in a newer version of the phrase. Since the 1960s we've seen a steady increase in phrases like a question that begs to be answered and one question begs an answer:

The influx of big data has boosted granular targeting capabilities, and with the rate at which data is being generated, a natural question that begs to be asked is, “what’s next?”

— Val Katayev, Forbes, 23 Nov. 2015

Still, the question begs to be asked: How could a team with one road win possibly be overconfident? — Janie McCauley, The Associated Press, 14 Dec. 2015

The other key question that begs to be answered is: what is valuable in Yahoo to buy? — Leslie Settles, The Wall Street Observer, 5 Dec. 2015

These uses still trail beg the question by a lot, but they're increasing—most likely because the logic in them is more easily seen.

There's a segment of the population that would be enormously relieved if phrases like a question that begs an answer replaced the usual begs the question uses. These are people who think using beg the question to mean "to cause someone to ask a specified question as a reaction or response" is completely and thoroughly wrong. There are probably more of these people than you think, and they are judging the rest of us.

Other Uses of Beg the Question

For these people, the only "correct" way to use the phrase beg the question is with the meaning "to ignore a question or issue by assuming it has been answered or settled." They think these examples are acceptable:

Rich parents send their daughters to all-female schools; why shouldn't the daughters of the poor enjoy similar advantages? That's an appeal bound to elicit sympathy, especially from guilty liberals, but it begs the question of whether the daughters of the rich benefit from single-sex education. Perhaps they benefit merely from being rich and attending elite private schools with favorable student-teacher ratios and superior facilities and curricula.

— Wendy Kaminer, The Atlantic, April 1998

But the notion of a homunculus—a "little man"—inside the brain who watches the world on something like a little television set is hardly an explanation, because it begs the question of how the little man himself is able to perceive things. Concealed in him must be an even smaller man who watches an itsy-bitsier TV, and so on ad infinitum, like nested Chinese boxes. — Paul Hoffman, Discover, September 1987

The problem is that beg the question is only very rarely used this way, as language blogger Stan Carey . In our dictionary the sense bears the label "formal."

The formal meaning does, though, help us get to the origin of the phrase itself.

Origin of Beg the Question

Beg the question is a phrase from formal logic. We have Aristotle to thank for it—or, actually, an anonymous 16th century translator who took Aristotle's phrase petitio principii and rendered it in English as "beg the question." A better translation would have been "assume the conclusion," as linguist Mark Liberman at Language Log explains; petitio principii is used to name the logical fallacy in which an argument assumes the very thing it's trying to prove. Here's an example:

If left to themselves, children will naturally do the right thing because people are intrinsically good.

This statement tries to prove that children will naturally do the right thing by using the unproven assertion that people are intrinsically good. That assertion is problematic because it is little more than a broader version of the thing that is being proven.

So that's where beg the question comes from, but all this, ahem, begs the question of what you should do with all this knowledge about the phrase. Liberman recommends that people avoid it altogether (but also "cultivate an attitude of serene detachment in the face of its use by others").

You may take his recommendation, or you may use beg the question to mean either "to cause someone to ask a specified question as a reaction or response" or "to ignore a question or issue by assuming it has been answered or settled." Both uses are established, and the first one is ubiquitous.

One more little matter here: the "to ignore a question or issue" meaning of beg the question has led to a meaning of beg defined as "evade" or "sidestep." It's typically found in phrases like "beg the issue" or "beg the point":