Slanted Questions

In a wonderful section in Truth and Method (Continuum Impacts) about questions, Gadamer says this: “We say that a question has been put wrongly when it does not reach the state of openness but precludes reaching it by retaining false presuppositions. It pretends to an openness and susceptibility to decision that it does not have.”

He offers the example of the “slanted question”: “There can be no answer to a slanted question because it leads us only apparently and not really, through the open state of indeterminacy in which a decision is made.”