Subquestion (Patton-Al-Zayadi-2021)
This is a definition of Subquestion that states "A question Q is a subquestion of another question Q’, iff any direct answer to Q is also a partial answer to Q’."
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This definition of Subquestion was formulated by Paul Patton and Cyrus Al-Zayadi in 2021.1
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| Modification | Community | Date Suggested | Summary | Verdict | Verdict Rationale | Date Assessed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sciento-2021-0006 | Scientonomy | 1 August 2021 | Accept new definitions of subquestion, core question, core theory, discipline, delineating theory, subdiscipline, and discipline acceptance. | Open |
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Subquestion (Patton-Al-Zayadi-2021) is an attempt to definition the following question: What is subquestion? How should it be defined?
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Description
A question is a topic of inquiry. 2 Questions can constitute hierarchies where more specific questions are subquestions of broader questions. For example, 'Was Peter the Great an emperor of Russia?' is a subquestion of 'Who were the emperors of Russia?' since by answering the former, we are also providing a partial answer to the latter. The latter is, in turn, a subquestion of the broader question 'Who were the rulers of European countries?'. 1 A partial answer to a question is a complete, or direct, answer to one of its subquestions.345
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References
- a b Patton, Paul and Al-Zayadi, Cyrus. (2021) Disciplines in the Scientonomic Ontology. Scientonomy 4, 59-85. Retrieved from https://scientojournal.com/index.php/scientonomy/article/view/37123.
- ^ Rawleigh, William. (2018) The Status of Questions in the Ontology of Scientific Change. Scientonomy 2, 1-12. Retrieved from https://scientojournal.com/index.php/scientonomy/article/view/29651.
- ^ Beck, Sigrid and Sharvit, Yael. (2002) Pluralities of questions. Journal of Semantics 19 (2), 105-157.
- ^ Beck, Sigrid and Sharvit, Yael. (2001) Subquestions and quantificational variability effects. In Megerdoomian and Bar-el (2001), 510-523.
- ^ Eckardt, Regine. (2007) 'Was noch?' Navigating in question answer discourse. In Spath (2007), 77-96.
