I found an old comment by Morendil that provides a useful (but possibly non-exhaustive) taxonomy of questions:
“challenge” questions like “how confident are you about this”—they are really intended to prompt the askee to ask the question of themselves“clarification” questions—like “what did you mean by X”“genuinely curious” questions—the first to seem so was “How does any particular agent go about convincing me that it’s Omega?”“mocking rhetorical” questions—like “Don’t they know (...) this thing called ‘social networking’? ”“hypothetical” questions—like “what would I think of an amateur who argues with me in the area of my competence?”“question and answer” pairs—like “does that mean they are wasting their time there? Of course not...”—obviously rhetorical“what if” questions—like “And what if you wanted to grow?”“agreement seeking” questions—like “Agreed?”“information-providing” questions—like “Anyone heard of Marblar?” (with a link, so we know the asker has heard of it)
“challenge” questions like “how confident are you about this”—they are really intended to prompt the askee to ask the question of themselves
“clarification” questions—like “what did you mean by X”
“genuinely curious” questions—the first to seem so was “How does any particular agent go about convincing me that it’s Omega?”
“mocking rhetorical” questions—like “Don’t they know (...) this thing called ‘social networking’? ”
“hypothetical” questions—like “what would I think of an amateur who argues with me in the area of my competence?”
“question and answer” pairs—like “does that mean they are wasting their time there? Of course not...”—obviously rhetorical
“what if” questions—like “And what if you wanted to grow?”
“agreement seeking” questions—like “Agreed?”
“information-providing” questions—like “Anyone heard of Marblar?” (with a link, so we know the asker has heard of it)
This makes me think that none of the current answers have provided a full explanation of what questions are yet.
I found an old comment by Morendil that provides a useful (but possibly non-exhaustive) taxonomy of questions:
This makes me think that none of the current answers have provided a full explanation of what questions are yet.