The Fallacy of Many Questions

Southwestern Journal of Philosophy 4 (1):89-92 (1973)
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In this article I explore two accounts of the Fallacy of Many Questions made famous by the question "Have you stopped beating your wife?" The accounts are from the works of Lennart Aqvist and Noel Belnap, and the two authors differ in their accounts of the fallacy. Then I give my own account based on understanding a facet of erotetic logic, i. e., the logic of questions.

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10.5840/swjphil19734111

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