Methodological Issues for the Logic of Questions and Commands

Roderic A. Girle and Jonathan McKeown-Green
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Roderic A. Girle: Philosophy Department, University of Auckland, New Zealand
Jonathan McKeown-Green: Philosophy Department, University of Auckland, New Zealand

International Journal of Cognitive Informatics and Natural Intelligence (IJCINI), 2012, vol. 6, issue 3, 1-18

Abstract: There has been much recent interest in logics for questions and commands. The authors approve, but they argue that methodological issues must be addressed, before it is possible to understand what such logics are for and what they should be like. In particular, the authors deny that the formulas in such logics correspond directly to sentences in ordinary language. Logic is not linguistics. What then are the semantics for the formulas of logics of questions and commands? The focus here is mostly on questions. The authors argue that logics designed to capture the conditions for correct reasoning involving questions require a semantics that treats question-answer pairs as values. They also argue that formal dialogue approaches to the logic of questions should be interpreted in the light of the denial that logic is about language.

Date: 2012
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