Drawing inspiration from the notion of evocation employed in inferential erotetic logic, we defend an ‘evoked questions norm’ on inquiring attitudes. According to this norm, it is rational to have an inquiring attitude concerning a question only if that question is evoked by your background information. We offer two arguments for this norm. First, we develop an argument from convergence. Insights from several independent literatures (20th-century ordinary-language philosophy, inferential erotetic logic, inquisitive epistemic logic, and contemporary zetetic epistemology), all converge on the evoked questions norm. Second, we show that suitably interpreted, the evoked questions norm correctly predicts several underappreciated kinds of bad questions. It does this, in part, by recovering versions of previously defended ignorance and knowledge norms. Some of those bad questions cannot be predicted by either norm singly, but only when corporately taken to reflect a common normative category. We identify this category as evocation.

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引发的问题和询问的态度


从推理性色情逻辑中使用的唤起概念中汲取灵感，我们捍卫关于探究态度的“引发问题规范”。根据这一规范，只有当你的背景信息引发了某个问题时，对这个问题抱有探究态度才是理性的。我们为这一规范提供两个论据。首先，我们从收敛性出发提出一个论证。来自几个独立文献（20世纪普通语言哲学、推理性情欲逻辑、好奇认识逻辑和当代zetetic认识论）的见解都集中在引发问题规范上。其次，我们表明，经过适当的解释，诱发问题规范可以正确预测几种未被充分认识的不良问题。它在一定程度上是通过恢复以前捍卫的无知和知识规范的版本来做到这一点的。其中一些不好的问题不能单独通过任何一个规范来预测，而只能在共同反映一个共同的规范类别时才能预测。我们将这一类别定义为唤起。