Questions, inferences, and scenarios (Q2872612)

This book, divided into 13 chapters, studies the importance of questions and questioning from a logic and linguistic angle. The main focus of the book is on the inferences and their validity that we can obtain from or with questions (inferential erotetic logic). The book begins with an exposition of questioning in the context of formal languages and proceeds to the study of erotetic semantics in declarations and questions. The second part of the book considers inferences and their validity. In this context, of particular interest are questions that are answered by questions and the inferences we can derive from them. The last five chapters of this book consider \textit{scenarios}, where additional questions are required in order to arrive at an answer. Several models of decomposition are presented, including the importance of atomic (yes/no) questions. This interesting book concludes with a chapter on the application of the principles of inferential erotetic logic in problem solving and a list of useful references.