| json_metadata | "{"app":"musing/1.1","appTags":["question","answer"],"appCategory":"question","appTitle":"What analytical technique do you use in analyzing a question that you will answer?","appBody":"<p> </p>\n<p>I consider simple rhetoric. Most of the time, specifically pertinence. </p>\n<p>On the one hand, I always check the interest of the question, the point. Sometimes questions have a perlocutionary force which differs from their ilocutionary force, like when somebody asks you, “Can you tell me what time it is?” Its ilocutionary force demands a yes/no answer (because it is a yes/no question in terms of grammar), but its perlocutionary force is a requests: to know what time it is. Some people are really clumsy or really cunning at the moment they ask their questions; one must be smart, so nobody gets frustrated or gets to manipulate us.</p>\n<p>On the other hand, If I think it is none of their business, I question back (i.e. What do you need to know that for?). If I think it is none of my business, I tell them they should ask the right person. </p>\n<p>There are complex questions, too. A “complex question” is a logical fallacy: Somebody asks you, “Are you crazy or just an idiot?” What are your choices, right? </p>\n<p>I think the important thing is to preserve the principle of efficiency of any kind of communication: economy. Answer what will solve the most relevant doubt at the moment. That is the principle of pertinence. E.g. A person asks you what you’re doing later because they want to go with you on a date. What is the most relevant doubt? The inviter wants to know if you are free so you can go out, but maybe you don’t want to go on a date with this person even though you’re free, so the doubt you have to clarify is whether you are available or not for a date with such person. Be the last case your case, one good answer to do would be: “Probably I am not doing anything special this afternoon, and I want to keep it that way.” Most relevant doubt—and true question—solved!</p>","appDepth":2,"appParentPermlink":"p3z2gausw","appParentAuthor":"ijoel","musingAppId":"aU2p3C3a8N","musingAppVersion":"1.1","musingPostType":"answer"}" |
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