ABSTRACT
This chapter suggests that questions arise whenever conflicts occur in the attempts to organize people's experience by means of some system of schemata, or concepts. Questions arise from presuppositions whether single or in groups when the implications of the statements expressing them, consequent upon the ramifying relations that connect them with the context of articulate awareness to which they belong, give rise to conflicts, or reveal discrepancies, in the texture of that awareness. The answer, in all cases, is a suggested hypothesis, offered for examination, for testing and consequent rejection or acceptance. Logic of question and answer cannot be concerned with propositions in isolation for out of them no question arises. The same is true of absolute presuppositions, whether admitted as propositions or not; for questions arise only out of dynamic systems of advancing knowledge; they arise when and because application and development of the system discloses imperfections, conflicts and hiatus.
