question the question
Word Rarity
Common
Frequency: Zipf frequency 5.05 in modern English
40
Scrabble Score
19
Letters
3
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
To ask that a proposed question's presuppositions be explicitly justified, especially as a preliminary to answering it, for example a complex question or loaded question.
Example Sentences
- "To say that a question is fallacious is to say that it is objectionable to the answerer because it is constructed to force him to accept a proposition that he should not. This problem is compounded if the question is also semantically complex. A semantically complex question is one that contains a connective, ‘and’, ‘or’, or ‘if–then’ in its presupposition. Once again, the answerer must question the question by requesting that the propositions in the presupposition be separated into units that he can reasonable deal with."
Inflected Forms
questions the question (present, singular)
questioning the question (participle, present)
questioned the question (participle, past)
questioned the question (past)