QUESTION

1. Question as Interrogation

A question can be a sentence that  “attempts to get the addressee to supply information” (SIL, Question), using the specific morphemes and syntactic transformations attached to the interrogative form.

– The fallacy of many questions (loaded question, biased question) is one of the six Aristotelian linguistic  fallacies. A loaded question is a question about a statement that contains several implicit statements. The loaded question assumes the truth of these underlying statements, which may be disputed by the recipient of the question.

– Rhetoric uses a number of commonplace ontological questions to gather information.

— A rhetorical question, in the traditional sense of the term, re-frames the argumentative question as a question that admits a self-evident answer, see argumentative question, §4

2. Question as Problem

A question can be the subject of a discussion, an “issue; broadly: a problem” (MW, Question). It doesn’t necessarily have an interrogative form.

An argumentative question represents the discursive confrontation that generates an argumentative situation. Such a question does not refer to a search for information, but to a problem admitting of two meaningful, equally reasonable but incompatible answers.