ABSTRACT
The logic of rules may be joined with the logic of questions to treat deliberated changes in settled social rules in a perspective that gives special prominence to what he calls "issue-processing". Issue-processing is a way of characterizing by the joint use of the logic of questions arid the logic of rules social change at the pole where deliberated choices are to be found, if they are found at all. The technical details of the issue-processing approach are simple. It takes over from the logic of questions the distinction between "which" questions and "whether" questions. The issue-processing approach brings in a logic of rules and identifies the formula of every proposal as the formula of a social rule. The issue-processing approach treats the presence or absence of social rules as what is subject to change as a result of the debate.
