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in statements and questions. In fact he claimed "Every statement that anybody ever makes is made in the answer to a question." By way of explanation, he wrote "In proportion as a man is thinking scientifically when he makes a statement, he knows the statement is the answer to a question and he knows
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and answers. Embedded questions and situational analysis are noted, as well as specific considerations with regard to science, psychology, and surveys. Concluding chapters consider legal proceedings, philosophical questions, and the history of erotetic study in Poland in the 20th-century.
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what the question is." In this sense, when thinking is scientifically ordered, a question is logically prior to its own answer. Collingwood also asserts that "Each question involves a presupposition."
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For most of the time, researchers concentrated on the relation between questions and answers. Recently, more attention is given to the way questions come from sentences or other questions, similar to
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to write questions symbolically. Recognizing the consequent symbolic calculus, they note that it is insufficient for the logic of interrogatives, which is antisymbolic.
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reviewed the works of Harrah and Belnap together: he considered them a launching of erotetics into serious consideration. Later, Nuel Belnap and T. B. Steel Jr. wrote
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The Theory of Questions: Erotitics through the Prism of its Philosophical Background and Practical Applications
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by David Harrah that focused on questions as pivotal in communication. The same year Belnap published
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Joke Meheus (2001) "Adaptive Logics for Question Evocation",
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A Logical Theory of Teaching: Erotetics and Intensionality
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Actes du Congrès International de Philosophie Scientifique
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wrote on "Questions, Answers, and Presuppositions".
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Index

logic
questions
Richard Whately
Eugeniu Sperantia
Arthur Prior
copula
R. G. Collingwood
presuppositions
Nuel D. Belnap, Jr.
MIT Press
C. L. Hamblin
query languages
data base management systems
question answering
entailment
Jaakko Hintikka
Andrzej Wiśniewski
reality
Anna Brożek
ontology
epistemology
cognition
teaching
Complex question
Contingent question
Display and referential questions
Leading question
Loaded question
Open-ended question
Rhetorical question

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