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Questions are objects whose relation to interrogative sentences may be construed by analogy to the relation of propositions to declarative sentences, or of concepts to predicates: the first member of each relation is said to be expressed by the other. A question is a class (or property) of synonymous interrogative sentences just as a proposition is a class of synonymous declarative sentences. It is more convenient, however, to speak of questions and of interrogative sentences interchangeably, if a danger of misunderstanding does not arise.
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Marciszewski, W. (1981). Questions. In: Marciszewski, W. (eds) Dictionary of Logic as Applied in the Study of Language. Nijhoff International Philosophy Series, vol 9. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-1253-8_56
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