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Whenever we strive to acquire information which is in advance defined to a certain degree, but not completely, we ask questions. If a person asks who is now the president of France, then he strives to acquire not just any information, but information that can be formulated in a statement in the form “x is now the president of France”. Thus the information which that person wants to receive is a proposition which is defined in advance, but not unambiguously, as one of the many propositions that can be formulated by a statement in the form “x is now the president of France”.
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Ajdukiewicz, K. (1974). Questions and Interrogative Sentences. In: Pragmatic Logic. Synthese Library, vol 62. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-2109-8_7
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