Questions as information types

Ciardelli, Ivano

doi:10.1007/s11229-016-1221-y

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“…Getting clear about this requires a proper understanding of how inference works when it initiates from interrogative premises. Ciardelli's (,b, ) support‐based account of the logic of questions will be especially helpful.…”

Section: The New Idle Argumentmentioning

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Fatalism and the Logic of Unconditionals

Bledin

2018

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In this paper, I consider a variant of the ancient Idle Argument involving so‐called “unconditionals” with interrogative antecedents. This new Idle Argument provides an ideal setting for probing the logic of these close relatives of if‐conditionals, which has been comparatively underexplored. In the course of refuting the argument, I argue that contrary to received wisdom, many unconditionals do not entail their main clauses, yet modus ponens is still unrestrictedly valid for this class of expressions. I make these lessons precise in a formal system drawing on recent work in inquisitive semantics. My larger aim is to challenge standard truth preservation accounts of logic and deductive argumentation.

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Section: The New Idle Argumentmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…However, I think that Belnap & Steel's pessimism is unwarranted and simply outdated in light of subsequent work on the logic of questions by Groenendijk & Stokhof (), Ciardelli (, ), and many others. One way to get a better feel for such a logic is to consider arguments with questions embedded in knowledge‐wh reports .…”

Section: Modus Ponens For Unconditionalsmentioning

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Fatalism and the Logic of Unconditionals

Bledin

2018

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“…In the terminology of [Ciardelli, 2016b], this amounts to the assumption that the set BSA(µ) be a generator for the set Res(µ). On the basis of this assumption, one can indeed show that the relation ⊑ characterizes question entailment:…”

Section: Trying To Repair Answer-set Theoriesmentioning

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Question Meaning = Resolution Conditions

Ciardelli

2017

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Abstract. Traditional approaches to the semantics of questions analyze questions indirectly, via the notion of an answer. In recent work on inquisitive semantics, a different perspective is taken: the meaning of a question is equated with its resolution conditions, just like the meaning of a statement is traditionally equated with its truth-conditions. In this paper I argue that this proposal improves on previous approaches, combining the formal elegance and explanatory power of Groenendijk and Stokhof's partition theory with the greater generality afforded by answer-set theories.

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“…At the propositional level (the only one which will interest us here) an information state is identified with a set of possible worlds. We will concentrate upon the most basic system of inquisitive semantics, labelled InqB, in its current version presented by Ivano Ciardelli in [7] and [8].…”

Section: Constructive Generalized Entailment Versus Entailment In Inqmentioning

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“…[5]) or proofs in the natural deduction format (cf. [7,8]). The aim of this section is to show that a certain formal tool developed within Inferential Erotetic Logic, namely erotetic search scenarios (e-scenarios for short), can also be helpful.…”

Section: Constructive Generalized Entailment and E-scenariosmentioning

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Generalized Entailments

Wiśniewski

2017

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Abstract.A semantic relation between a family of sets of formulas and a set of formulas, dubbed generalized entailment, and its subrelation, called constructive generalized entailment, are defined and examined. Entailment construed in the usual way and multiple-conclusion entailment can be viewed as special cases of generalized entailment. The concept of constructive generalized entailment, in turn, enables an explication of some often used notion of interrogative entailment, and coincides with inquisitive entailment at the propositional level. Some interconnections between constructive generalized entailment and Inferential Erotetic Logic are also analysed.Keywords: entailment; families of sets; logic of questions Basic intuitionsAs for logic, entailment is most often conceived of as a relation between a set of well-formed formulas (wffs for short) on the one hand, and a single wff on the other. Entailment ensures transmission of truth: a wff A entailed by a set of wffs X must be true if only all the wffs in X are true. What 'must' means here depends on a logic under consideration, and similarly for 'truth.' The transmission of truth principle falls under the general schema: where A stands, depending on a case, for: 'valuation' (of an appropriate kind), 'model', 'intended model', 'world of a model', and so forth.Entailment understood in the standard way exhibits a kind of asymmetry: what is entailed is a single wff, while what is entailing it is a set of wffs. If, for some reasons, you prefer symmetry over the lack of it,

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Questions as information types

Cited by 27 publications

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Fatalism and the Logic of Unconditionals

Fatalism and the Logic of Unconditionals

Question Meaning = Resolution Conditions

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