The Posing of Questions: Logical Foundations of Erotetic InferencesSpringer Science & Business Media, 27 lis 2013 - 250 This book is a study in the logic of questions (sometimes called erotetic logic). The central topics in erotetic logic have been the structure of questions and the question-answer relationship. This book doesn't neglect these problems, but much of it is focussed on other issues. The main subject is the logical analysis of certain relations between questions and the contexts of their appearance. And our aim is to elaborate the conceptual apparatus of the inferential approach to the logic of questions. Questions are asked for many reasons and for different purposes. Yet, before a question is asked or posed, a questioner must arrive at it. In many cases arriving at a question resembles coming to a conclusion: there are some premises involved and some inferential thought processes take place. If we agree that a conclusion need not be "conclusive", we may say that sometimes questions can play the role of conclusions. But questions can also perform the role of premises: we often pass from some "initial" question to another question. In other words, there are inferential thought processes - we shall call them erotetic inferences - in which questions play the roles of conclusions or conclusions and premises. The inferential approach to the logic of questions focusses its attention on the analysis of erotetic inferences. This book consists of eight chapters. |
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A₁ analyzed answer to Q Assume B₁ Belnap Chapter closed terms concept considered kind Corollary declarative formulas declarative premises declarative sentences defined definition dQ₁ E-argument empty set entailment is compact erotetic argument erotetic constants erotetic inferences evocation evoked expression F₁ factual presuppositions first-order language formal counterpart formalized language free variables greater than Poznań Im(Q implied question initial question interrogative sentence Kraków Kubiński least Let us stress logic of questions mc-entailment metalanguage multiple-conclusion n-tuples non-empty proper subset nonequiform normal interpretation normal question Polish bishopric Poznań PresQ presupposition of Q Proof proper subset prospective presupposition Q₁ Q₂ question Q regular question S(Ax safe questions second kind self-rhetorical semantics sentential function set of d-wffs set of declarative set of direct set of sentences simple yes-no questions singleton set sound relative symbols syntactical tautologies Theorem third kind true direct answer u₁ universal closure x₁