ABSTRACT
Bakerviewedthequestion-answerrelationsimilarlytoKarttunen andG&S,thatis,hetookquestionstohave(nomorethan)onetrue complete(semantic)answereach.Thusthequestion-answerrelation mustbewhathecalledexhaustive,inthefollowingway(1968,36):
Letususetheterm"partialanswer"torefertoanytrue sentencesatisfyingtheschemaprovidedbythequestion, oranyconjunctionofsuchsentences.Wethensaythata partialanswertoaquestion"satisfiestheexhaustiveness condition"withrespecttothatquestionifitispossibleto deducefromthatpartialansweranyandallotherpartial answers,providedwearefurnishedwithinformation aboutrelationsofsynonymyexistingbetweenindividual
words and about the reference intended by proper names and descriptions.
