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The epistemological significance of the interrogative / James Somerville.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Somerville, James.
- Series:
- Ashgate new critical thinking in philosophy
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Inquiry (Theory of knowledge).
- Physical Description:
- xi, 272 pages ; 25 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Aldershot, Hampshire, England ; Burlington : Ashgate Pub. Co., [2002]
- Contents:
- Interrogative Clauses Following Know 1
- The Traditional Neglect of Questions 6
- The Propositional and the Interrogative 9
- Types of Questions and their Formation 13
- Stock Accounts of Questions 22
- 2 The Interrogative 29
- Interrogative Clauses 29
- The Opaqueness of the Interrogative 31
- The Concept of What Answers a Question 35
- Interrogative Concepts 41
- Other Grammatical Forms 49
- 3 Questions and Enquiry 57
- The Question What Is A Question? 58
- The Questing Model 68
- Questions as Quaesita 75
- The Matching Model 79
- 4 Asking Questions 85
- The Social Intellectual Acts 85
- Asking Oneself Questions 89
- Abstracting from Mental Acts 96
- The Speech-Act Fallacy in Logic 98
- 5 Stating Answers 107
- Answering 107
- Explicit Performatives of the Social Acts 109
- What is Presumed of Speakers 113
- Answering, Statement-Making and Testimony 115
- The Addressee's Part 119
- 6 Interrogation 125
- The Notion of a Response 125
- What is Presumed of Interrogators Generally 131
- More Specific Intentions of Interrogators 137
- Confusions of Imperative Theorists 143
- Idiomatic Phrases 149
- 7 Requesting 152
- The Function of Requests 152
- The Wording of Requests and Invitations 156
- The Interrogative Character of Requests 161
- The Requesting Account of Questions 164
- Requesting Information 170
- 8 Interrogative Form 175
- Misconceptions of Interrogative Form 175
- Word Questions 180
- Frege on Yes-No Questions 186
- The Principle of Interrogative Opaqueness 194
- Clauses Answering Questions 201
- 9 Logic and the Different Types of Question 206
- Multiple-Choice Reformulations of Questions 207
- Cook Wilson's Examples 216
- Four Distinctions Arising 222
- The Overall Unity of Questions 229
- Appendix The Logic of Questions 235.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [245]-255) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0754607836
- OCLC:
- 49225825
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