Many questions, also known as complex question, presupposition, loaded question, "trick question", is an informal fallacy or logical fallacy.
It is committed when someone asks a question that presupposes something that has not been proven or accepted by all the people involved.
This fallacy is often used rhetorically, so that the question limits direct replies to those that serve the questioner's agenda.
An example of this is the question "you don't care much for football, do you?" Weather the respondent answers yes or no, he is answering a question to which the questioner, more than likely, already knows the answer to. The questioner probably already knows the person in question doesn't like football, and the person answering is therefore answering a question to which the questioner already knows the answer to, so why ask? This is what's called a loaded question. When the questioners agenda and meaning gets twisted within the question, the questioner already knows the subject doesn't follow football, so the real question in question is 'you don't care much ... do you?' a question within a question, to serve the questioners agenda, a 'trick question'.
Thus, these facts are presupposed by the question, and in this case an entrapment, because it narrows the respondent to a single answer, and the fallacy of many questions has been committed.
The fallacy relies upon context for its effect: the fact that a question presupposes something does not in itself make the question fallacious.
Only when some of these presuppositions are not necessarily agreed to by the person who is asked the question does the argument containing them become fallacious.
A related fallacy is begging the question, in which a premise is included that is likely to be at least as unacceptable to an opponent as the proposed conclusion.
It's difficult to pick up on these subtle uses of grammar unless you are familiar with the term, types, expression, and uses of loaded questions. All i can say is, know your grammar, then you won't get caught out.
It is committed when someone asks a question that presupposes something that has not been proven or accepted by all the people involved.
This fallacy is often used rhetorically, so that the question limits direct replies to those that serve the questioner's agenda.
An example of this is the question "you don't care much for football, do you?" Weather the respondent answers yes or no, he is answering a question to which the questioner, more than likely, already knows the answer to. The questioner probably already knows the person in question doesn't like football, and the person answering is therefore answering a question to which the questioner already knows the answer to, so why ask? This is what's called a loaded question. When the questioners agenda and meaning gets twisted within the question, the questioner already knows the subject doesn't follow football, so the real question in question is 'you don't care much ... do you?' a question within a question, to serve the questioners agenda, a 'trick question'.
Thus, these facts are presupposed by the question, and in this case an entrapment, because it narrows the respondent to a single answer, and the fallacy of many questions has been committed.
The fallacy relies upon context for its effect: the fact that a question presupposes something does not in itself make the question fallacious.
Only when some of these presuppositions are not necessarily agreed to by the person who is asked the question does the argument containing them become fallacious.
A related fallacy is begging the question, in which a premise is included that is likely to be at least as unacceptable to an opponent as the proposed conclusion.
It's difficult to pick up on these subtle uses of grammar unless you are familiar with the term, types, expression, and uses of loaded questions. All i can say is, know your grammar, then you won't get caught out.
