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In an earlier paper,1 I have tried to answer the question of answerhood, that is, tried to specify the conditions on which a response to an English question counts as an answer to it. In this new paper, I shall strive to extend and to deepen that earlier analysis.
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Questions about Questions’, in Semantics and Philosophy, Milton K. Munitz and Peter K. Unger (eds.), N.Y.U. Press, New York, 1974, pp. 103–158. (See especially pp. 135–136.)
Lennart Aqvist, A New Approach to the Logical Theory of Interrogatives, Filosofiska föreningen, Uppsala, 1965. See also Lennart Aqvist, ‘Revised Foundations for Imperative-Epistemic and Interrogative Logic’, Theoria 37 (1971) 33–73, for a later reformulation of Åqvist’s theory.
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Hintikka, J. (1975). Answers to Questions. In: Hiż, H. (eds) Questions. Synthese Language Library, vol 1. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-9509-3_9
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