How Questions Guide Choices: A Preliminary Logical Investigation

Abstract

We will be concerned with decisions that involve some sort of action. You have an apple and can exchange it for an orange. If you prefer the orange then you exchange; if not, you don’t. The concept of preference here is a practical one, which presupposes that it is within your capability to move from one thing to another only if it is at least as good. Yet it is also important to be aware of what your capabilities are, and this is where questions are useful.