Nanopublication — How formal semantics models questions, answers, and presupposition
This is a technical Stanford Encyclopedia entry surveying formal semantics and philosophy-of-language theories of questions, answers, presupposition, and embedded interrogatives (Hamblin, Karttunen, partition semantics, inquisitive semantics, Bromberger, van Fraassen, knowledge-wh) — a logical/linguistic taxonomy with no emitter, receiver, wave, codex, or creative act for the ideamorphism framework to grip; any mapping of 'answer-types' onto 'diffraction' or 'receivers' would be manufactured rather than found.
Declined — no-purchase [1]
Propositional grid [2]
Read this grid. “Not evaluated” does not mean the source has nothing to say about that proposition. It means the reading did not instruct it. That is not a result, and it counts in no denominator. A silence, by contrast, is a finding: the reading touched the proposition without concluding, or noted its absence itself.
Not evaluated (37) — P1, P2, P3, P3a, P4, P5, P6, P7, P8, P9, P10, P11, P12, P13, P14, P14a, P14b, P15, P16, P16a, P17, P18, P18a, P19, P19a, P20, P21, P22, P23, P24, P25, P26, P27, P28, P29, P30, P31
Overall verdict: DECLINED:no-purchase — taxonomy of the August 2026 pass, predating the move to relational verdicts. Kept as metadata: the gap between the two forms is data, not residue. This reading’s judgement is in the grid above.
Reading of 2026-05-27 · model claude-sonnet-5 · source 100,023 chars · 1 attempt(s)
First pass — kept as written
Reading produced by the T50 RSS pass, before the boundary lens. It is reproduced UNCORRECTED. Keeping it is the point: without it, a changed title is just a changed title — with it, what the second pass refused becomes legible.
The philosophy of questions illuminates the RICOCHET EFFECT and the structure of engineered diffraction. A question is not a completed emission — it is a deliberately incomplete wave, a gap that demands receiver contribution. Cross and Roelofsen's emphasis on interrogative sentences (not just declarative ones) describes the asymmetry ideamorphism requires: the emitter structures incompleteness; the receiver completes through their ouverture. A scientific investigation begins with a question precisely because questions are diffractive instruments — they force the receiver (the investigator) to activate their own codex, their own embodied knowledge. The question is the game designer's move; the answer is the player's score. This is why philosophy of language has underestimated questions: they don't transmit propositions, they engineer diffraction.
T50 RSS assessment · 2026-05-27 · remplacée par boundary-lens-2026-08
References
- [1] Questions (Revised Entry). Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, 2026-05-27. https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/questions/
- [2] Quercy, A. (2026). The 31 Propositions of Ideamorphism. https://ideamorphism.org/en/publications/2026/03/the-31-propositions-of-ideamorphism.html
Epistemic profile
| Claim type | boundary reading |
|---|---|
| Voice | third person analysis |
| Epistemic status | no purchase |
| Methodology | Boundary-finding lens applied to one source, model claude-sonnet-5, 1 attempt(s), traceability check passed. |
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