QUAESTIO-XX  

A question about a specific thing called XX

Antonym
  • RESUMPTIOREPETITIO of an expression from an earlier context in order to resume a discussion. 繼承重複法 Resuming a phrase that has been focussed before.
    Hyponym
    • QUAESTIOADDRESS in the form of an open question.The posing of open questions without providing or expecting an answer. Compare APORIA, DUBITATIO, HAESITATIO.
      • COMMUNICATIO QUESTION soliciting advice from one's audience. 請教法 Appeal to the audience with a question what they think.
        • PROBLEMATISATIO QUAESTIO which raises a question as being unanswerable for the time being. The explicit raising of an (typically abstract) topic as a matter of general theoretical or intellectual interest.
          • QUAESTIO-SELF-ANSWERED QUAESTIO put to oneself and answered by oneself immediately afterwards in one's text. Asking questions and answering them oneself. Also known as SUBIECTIO. ANTHYPOPHORA
            • QUAESTIO-RHETORICA QUAESTIO which in fact emphatically affirms its assumed answer. Rhetorical question which is neither concluding nor initial.Traditionally: EROTEMA.
            • QUAESTIO-ANTICIPATIO-SELF-ANSWERED 預先自問法 Anticipation and answering of possible objections. Often referred to by its Greek name proleepsis.Compare QUAESTIO-SELF-ANSWERED which involves not objections but requests for clarification.
              • QUAESTIO-LECTORI 問看官法 A question which the reader is asked to answer for himself.Compare the QUASTIO-LECTORI-CONSULTATIVA by which the author asks a communicative question of advice to the reader.
                • QUAESTIO-LECTORI-CONSULTATIVA 請教讀者法 By the figure QUAESTIO-LECTORI-CONSULTATIVA (traditionally: ANACOENOSIS) the speaker asks counsel of his hearers. Greek: anakoinoosis.
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