ABSTRACT
The utilisation of interrogative form by interrogative clauses following know and kindred verbs, however, is in answering a question but without saying what it is that answers the question. The distinctive, non-propositional character of interrogative form needs to be grasped if not just questions but also the interrogative clauses governed by know and kindred verbs are to be adequately accounted for. Martin Bell’s further talk of considering a question ‘as it were, in quotation’ might suggest some interrogative counterpart to an unasserted proposition. Gottlob Frege may be taken as holding that a complete interrogative sentence expressing a word question expresses an incomplete proposition together with a request to complete the proposition so as to yield a thought. The logician’s notion of a quantifier invokes the interrogative concept of quantity. Interrogative concepts, it was seen, have propositional counterparts exercised in stating what can be construed, according to the Aristotelian approach, as an answer to a question.
