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What do you call a question with no answer?
rhetorical question
A rhetorical question is one for which the questioner does not expect a direct answer: in many cases it may be intended to start a discourse, or as a means of displaying or emphasize the speaker’s or author’s opinion on a topic.
How do you use isn’t in a question?
Using isn’t it? as a general-purpose tag question seems quite common in Asian/Indian English. Standard English makes the verb in the tag match the main verb: “You didn’t wait, did you?” There are quite a number of questions in ELU about this sort of tag. It’s the question-tag rule. I posted this a few days ago.
Is aren’t I correct English?
‘Aren’t I’ was considered an error for much of the 20th century. These days, it’s widely accepted. What happened? Aren’t I is an accepted phrase for “am I not” even though when the conjunction is broken down it appears to be short for “are not I,” which doesn’t agree with standard rules of grammar.
What is not vs isnt?
They’re very similar in meaning — both are correct, both are contractions of “it is not”, and both are fairly casual in tone. The differences are extremely slight, and easily negated in spoken speech by word emphasis. Of course, contractions are often discouraged in formal, or technical writing.
Is there such thing as a non-argument?
None of these are arguments, either — in fact, they aren’t even propositions. A proposition is something which can be either true or false, and an argument is something offered to establish the truth value of the proposition. But the statements above are not like that.
What makes an assertion a non-argument in logic?
None of these are arguments; instead, they are all just assertions. They could be transformed into arguments if the speaker were to offer evidence in support of their claims, but until then we don’t have very much to go on. One sign that you just have a strong assertion is the use of the exclamation points.
When to answer a yes or no question?
In this situation, Speaker A is asking a question not because he wants information, but because he is confirming something he just heard out of surprise. You could still respond to this type of question with a YES or a NO, but it’s not necessary, unless the speaker is trying to confirm that they heard something correctly.
How to create a genuine argument in logic?
If you want to try to create a genuine argument when you see such claims, you have to focus on the antecedent of the conditional and ask why it should be accepted as true. You can also ask why there is any connection between the hypothetical in the antecedent and the proposition in the consequent.