The interrogative construal of explanations is one of the earliest analytical devices in the philosophy of science. The general idea is still with us, in part because Hempel and Oppenheim endorsed it in their classic formal account. But although their work starts with the claim that explaining phenomena amounts to answering why-questions, the interrogative perspective did not find its way to ei...

the study aims at investigating the investigating the interrogative style of poet ibrahim al-makadmeh, who died in 2003. such investigation adopt the scientific and statistical approach which aims at specifying the different patterns of every question word andoutlining the syntactic fatures characterizing thepoets style. the study comprises the numder and percentages of style occrance of each q...

In the paper I discuss a tool for helping students in their symbolizations of natural language sentences using the formal language of classical first order logic (CFOL). The tool is an extension of Hintikka’s concept of (Inquirer’s) range of attention in the context of interrogative games. Any given text is reconstructed as the answer to a “big” or principal question obtained through the answer...

The primary measure of success of a software system is the level to which it meets the purpose for which it was projected and requirements engineering (RE) is the process of discovering that purpose. The RE process includes five distinct phases: Requirements Elicitation, Requirements Analysis & Negotiation, Requirements Documentation, Requirements Verification & Validation, and Requirements Man...