Interrogative Dependencies and the Constructive Content of Inquisitive Proofs

摘要

This paper shows how dichotomous inquisitive semantics gives rise to a general notion of entailment that unifies standard declarative entailment with answerhood and interrogative dependency, the relation holding when an answer to a question determines an answer to another. We investigate the associated logic, presenting a new completeness proof based on an explicit canonical model construction. On the way to this proof, we establish a new result, the resolution theorem, which shows that inquisitive proofs have a natural computational interpretation. We conclude arguing that, as a logic of dependencies, inquisitive logic has certain theoretical and practical advantages over related systems.