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Question Meaning = Resolution Conditions

Author(s) -

Ivano Ciardelli

Publication year - 2017

Publication title -

logic and logical philosophy

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.416

H-Index - 10

eISSN - 2300-9802

pISSN - 1425-3305

DOI - 10.12775/llp.2017.017

Subject(s) - generality , meaning (existential) , elegance , epistemology , resolution (logic) , statement (logic) , semantics (computer science) , perspective (graphical) , computer science , set (abstract data type) , explanatory power , mathematics , philosophy , artificial intelligence , psychology , programming language , psychotherapist

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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