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Revision as of 12:43, 2 August 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’."
This definition of Subquestion was formulated by Paul Patton and Cyrus Al-Zayadi in 2021.1
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Scientonomic History
Acceptance Record
Suggestions To Accept
Here are all the modifications where the acceptance of this definition has been suggested:
Modification | Community | Date Suggested | Summary | Verdict | Verdict Rationale | Date Assessed |
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Sciento-2021-0006 | Scientonomy | 1 August 2021 | Accept new definitions of subquestion, core question, core theory, discipline, delineating theory, subdiscipline, and discipline acceptance. | Open |
Question Answered
Subquestion (Patton-Al-Zayadi-2021) is an attempt to answer the following question: What is subquestion? How should it be defined?
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Description
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?'. A partial answer to a question is a complete, or direct, answer to one of its subquestions.234
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References
- ^ 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.
- ^ 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.