TY - BOOK AU - Kubiński,Tadeusz TI - An Outline of the Logical Theory of Questions SN - 9783112699911 PY - 1980///] CY - Berlin, Boston PB - De Gruyter KW - PHILOSOPHY / Language KW - bisacsh N1 - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Introduction --; Part One --; 1. Introductory Remarks --; 2. Symbols, Language J , Metalanguage of J --; 3. Simple Numerical Operators --; 4. Compound Numerical Operators --; 5. Compound Numerical Operators (continuation) --; 6. Operators of the Type C --; 7. Numerical Operators of the Second Category --; 8. Operators [δn] --; 9. Operators [βn] and [α] --; 10. Operators [e] and [η]. Conditional Questions of two Types --; 11. Questions about Forbearance --; 12. Remarks on Some New Types of Questions --; 13. Supplementary Remarks on New Formalized Languages Useful in Logical Theory of Questions --; 14. Some Remarks on Questions of the Type "Why?" --; 15. Some Remarks on Classifications of Questions --; 16. Some Problems of Effectiveness. Evocation of Questions --; 17. Direct Answers and Some Types of Definitions. Occasional Question "What is it?" --; Part Two --; 1. Introductory Remarks --; 2. Notions of Satisfaction, Model, and Truth in a Model --; 3. Notions of Logical Consequence and Regular Consequence. Independent Formulas --; 4. System S of the Logic of Questions --; 5. Theses of the System S. Laws of Elimination of Questions --; 6. Theses of the System S. Laws of Equivalence, Permutation, Reduction and Cancelling of Negation --; 7. Theses of the System S. Laws of Index Alteration, Laws of Commutativity, Further Laws of Elimination of Questions --; 8. Extension S* of the System S. Bases of Questions in Questions. Definability of Interrogative Operators by Interrogative Operators --; 9. The Problem of Dilutions of the Regular Consequence --; 10. Kinds of Answers to Questions --; 11. Remarks on Some Notions of Direct Answer --; 12. Logics of Answers OR and OR* --; 13. General Remarks on the Logic of Answers OR --; 14. System E of the Logic of Questions --; 15. Problem of Negation of Questions. Negationless Questions --; 16. The Problem of Extensionality of Some Constants in the Alphabet of the Systems S, E, and OR --; 17. Complete Systems and Answers to Questions. Classes of Questions and Algebraic Systems --; Part Three --; 1. Preliminary Remarks. Pragmatic Presuppositions of Questions --; 2. Syntactic Presuppositions of Questions. Some Necessary Conditions --; 3. Syntactic Presuppositions of Questions Containing the Symbols of the Form k<, k <, k, and (k) --; 4. Syntactic Presuppositions of Questions Containing the Symbols of the Form (k