Includes bibliographical references (p. 425-436) and index.

Preliminary material / Editors Theory of Questions -- INTRODUCTION / Editors Theory of Questions -- ONTOLOGICAL AND EPISTEMOLOGICAL PRELIMINARIES / Editors Theory of Questions -- SEMANTICS AND PRAGMATICS / Editors Theory of Questions -- SENTENCES AND PICTURES OF SITUATIONS / Editors Theory of Questions -- SEMANTICO-CATEGORIAL ANALYSIS / Editors Theory of Questions -- THE COMMUNICATIVE FUNCTION OF QUESTIONS / Editors Theory of Questions -- THE STRUCTURE OF NATURAL-LANGUAGE QUESTIONS / Editors Theory of Questions -- SEMANTICO-CATEGORIAL DESCRIPTION OF QUESTIONS / Editors Theory of Questions -- COGNITIVE CONTENT AND COGNITIVE CONTEXT OF QUESTIONS / Editors Theory of Questions -- ANSWERS / Editors Theory of Questions -- EMBEDDED QUESTIONS / Editors Theory of Questions -- THE ANALYSIS OF EROTETIC SITUATION / Editors Theory of Questions -- QUESTIONS IN SCIENCE / Editors Theory of Questions -- EROTETIC REASONING / Editors Theory of Questions -- PSYCHOLOGICAL ANALYSIS OF QUESTIONS / Editors Theory of Questions -- QUESTIONS IN SURVEYS / Editors Theory of Questions -- QUESTIONS IN DIDACTIC TESTS / Editors Theory of Questions -- QUESTIONS IN LEGAL PROCEEDINGS / Editors Theory of Questions -- PHILOSOPHICAL QUESTIONS / Editors Theory of Questions -- CONCLUSIONS / Editors Theory of Questions -- FROM THE HISTORY OF EROTETICS IN POLAND IN THE 20TH CENTURY144 / Editors Theory of Questions -- REFERENCES / Editors Theory of Questions -- NAME INDEX / Editors Theory of Questions.

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It is hard to imagine our life without questions. They facilitate orientation in our environment, enable interpersonal communication and make the acquisition of knowledge possible. Questions direct scientific research, are used as research tools and are an important medium of transferring knowledge in teaching. The book is intended as a par excellence philosophical monograph of the theory of questions, presenting the most important erotetic problems, their general background and selected practical applications. It is prepared in all fairness to results acquired in the framework of the logical theories of questions but goes beyond this framework.