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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