Asking and Answering / / Moritz Cordes.

Questions are everywhere and the ubiquitous activities of asking and answering, as most human activities, are susceptible to failure - at least from time to time. This volume offers several current approaches to the systematic study of questions and the surrounding activities and works toward suppor...

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Place / Publishing House:Tübingen : : Gunter Narr Verlag,, 2021.
Year of Publication:2021
Language:English
Physical Description:1 online resource (265 pages)
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Table of Contents:
  • Preface and Introduction 7 - 14
  • 1 Why We Need a Question Semantics 15 - 47
  • 1A Comments on Why We Need a Question Semantics by Ivano Ciardelli 48 - 54
  • 1B In Defense of Question Diversity: Comments on Ciardelli 55 - 62
  • 2 Modelling Questions in Commitment Spaces 63 - 95
  • 2A Partialism in Krifka's Approach to Interpreting Polar Questions 96 - 104
  • 3 An Essay on Inferential Erotetic Logic 105 - 138
  • 4 Justifying Questions: What Kinds, How, and Why 139 - 155
  • 4A Justifying Questions: A Key to Understanding Inferences Involving Questions? 156 - 164
  • 5 How to Arrive at Questions 165 - 175
  • 5A How to Arrive at Questions 176 - 182
  • 6 The Method of Socratic Proofs: From the Logic of Questions to Proof Theory 183 - 198
  • 6A Comments on Dorota Leszczyńska-Jasion's The Method of Socratic Proofs 199 - 210
  • 7 Accepting & Rejecting Questions: First Steps toward a Bilateralism for Erotetic Logic 211 - 232
  • 7A Comments on Jared Millson's Accepting & Rejecting Questions 233 - 240
  • 8 Questions and Indeterminate Reference 241 - 252
  • 8A Comments on Floris Roelofsen's Questions and Indeterminate Reference 253 - 258
  • List of Contributors 259 - 259
  • Name Index 260 - -2
  • Leere Seite -1 - 264.