A New Field of Interrogative Logic: Logic of Sequential Questions
LI Yan-zhon · Journal of South China Normal University · 2007
The research on interrogative logic is miscellaneous and exuberant.Essentially,the formal structure of an interrogative sentence consists of the subject of conversation and the interrogative form.The principle of presupposition is a crucial means of authenticating attributes of questions and of probing correlation among questions.This path-finding of logic of questions will make great difference from previous research on interrogative logic,will make an attempt to put questions into some successively extended asking and answering chains just as in practical contextual situations,to put them into systemization instead of studying single interrogative sentence as an isolated insularity,thus discarding dissection.In a row of asking-answering,subsequent asking-answering,questions are investigated with three types of Q-Q tie;A-Q tie and A-A tie.