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Some remarks concerning modal propositional logic of questions

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  • Mariusz Urbański Tadeusz Kotarbiński Pedagogical University, Zielona Góra

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https://doi.org/10.12775/LLP.1998.010

Abstract

Recently, it has become a custom to treat questions (or, better, questioning) as a game between two subjects. Unfortunately, one rarely goes beyond the scheme of Questioner-Scientist and Answerer-Nature, although the Interlocutor so conceived displays some undesirable features. This paper argues for the idea that logic of questions can be build as a logic of the game between “knowledge resources” persons or theories, rather than errant Scientist and omniscient Nature. To this end the concept of epistemically-possible worlds is discussed, which is conceived as analogous to that of possible worlds in modal logic. And, furthermore, the concepts of relation of epistemic alternativeness and of epistemically-alternative worlds are introduced. On this basis a version of semantics for propositional, three-valued logic of questions is offered and semantic proofs of some theses are given.

Author Biography

Mariusz Urbański, Tadeusz Kotarbiński Pedagogical University, Zielona Góra

Institute of Philosophy

References

Belnap, N.D., and Th.B. Steel, 1976, The Logic of Questions and Answers, Yale University Press, New Haven.

Harrah, D., 1984, “The logic of questions”, in: D. Gabbay and F. Guenthner (eds.), Handbook of Philosophical Logic. Volume II: Extensions of Classical Logic, D. Reidel, Dordrecht: 715–764.

Hintikka, J., 1992, “The interrogative model of inquiry as a general theory of argumentation”, Communication and Cognition 25: 221–241.

Hoepelman, J., 1983, “On questions”, in: F. Kiefer (ed.), Questions and Answers, D. Reidel, Dordrecht: 191–227.

Hughes, G. E., and M. J. Cresswell, 1996, A New Introduction to Modal Logic, Routledge, London and New York.

Wiśniewski, A., 1995, The Posing of Questions: Logical Foundations of Erotetic Inferences, Kluwer (“Synthese Library”, vol. 252), Dordrecht.

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1998-11-06

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URBAŃSKI, Mariusz. Some remarks concerning modal propositional logic of questions. Logic and Logical Philosophy. Online. 6 November 1998. Vol. 6, no. 6, pp. 187-196. [Accessed 6 July 2025]. DOI 10.12775/LLP.1998.010.
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