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Traducción Fernando Leal Carretero

Resumen

Note of the editor. In other publications, I have been trying to make people aware of the importance of questions for the theory of argumentation. This is the reason for publishing the present paper in this journal. Its author is professor in the Department of Logic and Cognitive Science at Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, Poland, and a well-known pioneer in the field of erotetic logic, a branch of formal logic in which questions are subject to strict logical analysis. This paper was originally written in Polish and published in the journal Studia Filozoficzne [Estudios Filosóficos], núm. 8–9 (213–214), pp. 211–225, in 1983. It thus represents a very early phase in Professor Wiśniewski’s research. The reader who wants to know the current logical position of the author should consult his book Questions, Inferences, and Scenarios (London, College Publications, 2013) or his most recent papers available in his website (http://andrzejwisniewski.edu.pl/). In spite of its being outdated within Wiśniewski’s work, this paper is well worth making it available in English both because of the high quality of its arguments as well as because it deals directly with philosophical questions, whereas the bulk of its author’s work deals with questions in general, without any special attention to philosophical questions. The perceptive reader will notice that the author relies throughout on the celebrated tradition of Polish formal logic. Although some of his references may be obscure to us, I trust that the content of the papers is perfectly clear and useful. As for the translation, it was done in three steps: (1) two different pieces of software were used, the Google translator and DeepL, going carefully through each sentence and each paragraph; (2) the two translations were compared with each other and with the original at all points, trying to recover as many linguistic nuances as possible and eliminating errors due to the technical character of the discussion; (3) a clean draft was sent to Professor Wiśniewski for review and correction. The present versions has thus been amended and approved by the author himself, to whom we are very grateful for the permission to publish it. (Fernando Leal.)