Questioning the question: a hermeneutical perspective on the ‘art of questioning’ in a community of philosophical inquiry

In his famous work, Truth and Method, the German philosopher Hans-Georg Gadamer writes:

[T]he art of questioning is the art of questioning further – i.e., the art of thinking. It is called dialectic because it is the art of conducting a real dialogue . . . [A] person skilled in the ‘art’ of questioning is a person who can prevent questions from being suppressed by the dominant opinion.