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What is it called when you answer a question with a question?
The word is maieutics, also known as the Socratic method, answering a question with a question, often to invoke more thought into the questioner, to answer the questions they ask themselves.
How do you ask questions to get answers?
Ten Tips for Asking Good Questions
- Plan your questions.
- Know your purpose.
- Open conversation.
- Speak your listener’s language.
- Use neutral wording.
- Follow general questions with specific ones.
- Focus your questions so they ask one thing at a time.
- Ask only essential questions.
When can you answer a question with a question?
Some benign reasons to respond to a question with another question might be to: get clarification on what the questioner is asking. encourage a student to work out an answer rather than simply being given one. make a rhetorical point to set up an answer.
What’s a question without answer called?
rhetorical question
A rhetorical question is a question asked to make a point, rather than get an answer. If you have ever been late, someone might say: ‘What time do you call this? ‘ This person doesn’t want an answer to the question.
What is the importance of asking questions?
Questions are important to the students in a class for two reasons: Students learn to ask questions by asking questions. Students learn to ask good questions by asking questions and then receiving feedback on them. Students learn to become scholars by learning to ask good questions.
Can I ask you something?
What does it mean when a guy says can I ask you something? “ Can I ask you something ” signifies a very polite etiquette. This shows that a person is not imposing and in a polite conversation you have an option to say no if you want to without the speaker minding it. “Can I ask you somthing” is best answered with “depends”.
Why you might ask?
It is when someone knows what questions another person might ask and they usually answer the question after saying that. For example: Why do I like chicken so much you might ask? It’s because it can be put in many meals. It is when someone knows what questions another person might ask and they usually answer the question after saying that.
What is the power of a question?
The Power of Questions. Questions give you a lot of power in any conversation. Here’s just some of the great benefits you can gain from using questions. Control. First of all questions give you power. They put you in charge of the conversation. When you ask a question, there is a strong social pressure for the other person to answer the question.