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The Posing of Questions

Logical Foundations of Erotetic Inferences

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  • © 1995

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Authors:
  1. Andrzej Wiśniewski

    1. Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań, Poland

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Part of the book series: Synthese Library (SYLI, volume 252)

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Table of contents (8 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiv
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  2. Erotetic Inferences and How Questions Arise

    • Andrzej Wiśniewski
    Pages 1-33

  3. Logical Theories of Questions

    • Andrzej Wiśniewski
    Pages 34-69

  4. Questions

    • Andrzej Wiśniewski
    Pages 70-101

  5. Semantics

    • Andrzej Wiśniewski
    Pages 102-126

  6. Evocation of Questions

    • Andrzej Wiśniewski
    Pages 127-154

  7. Generation of Questions

    • Andrzej Wiśniewski
    Pages 155-170

  8. Erotetic Implication

    • Andrzej Wiśniewski
    Pages 171-208

  9. Erotetic Arguments

    • Andrzej Wiśniewski
    Pages 209-230

  10. Back Matter

    Pages 231-250
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About this book

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.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań, Poland

    Andrzej Wiśniewski

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: The Posing of Questions

  • Book Subtitle: Logical Foundations of Erotetic Inferences

  • Authors: Andrzej Wiśniewski

  • Series Title: Synthese Library

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-8406-7

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 1995

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-7923-3637-2Published: 31 August 1995

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-90-481-4595-9Published: 15 December 2010

  • eBook ISBN: 978-94-015-8406-7Published: 27 November 2013

  • Series ISSN: 0166-6991

  • Series E-ISSN: 2542-8292

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XIV, 250

  • Topics: Logic, Mathematical Logic and Foundations, Philosophy of Language, Artificial Intelligence, Epistemology

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