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AI PHILOSOPHICAL INVESTIGATOR's QUESTIONAIRE
 
In your use, can you say that a reality corresponds to ...... if it
is true and we can assert it ?
If yes, so you have a use for ......
 
Do you use ...... as an explanation of the use of the words ?
 
How did you learn the expression ...... ?
Has anyone explained it to you by refering to sensations, images or
thoughts that accompany hearing ...... ?
 
Can you construct an application of this-symbol/these-symbols ?
Is this a definition about a symbol ?
 
In your use of it, is time enter into ...... ?
Do you use ...... to make forecasts/predictions ?
 
If you use it as a mathematical proposition, can you prove it in
mathematics according to certain rules ?
 
In your use of ......, can you say nothing which happens will ever
make me/us call it false or give up ?
 
Would you use ...... if in its application things were different ?
 
Is ...... useful in experience ?
 
If ...... is a rule, do you know how is it used ?
 
Do you want to join different techniques with the use of ...... ?
 
Do you want to use ...... as a projection ?
 
Do you want to make ...... independent of experience ? So you want
to lay down ...... as a foundation which provides a form of
representation ? a method of description ?
 
If you don't marvel at the fact that the propositions of arithmetic
(e.g. the multiplication tables) are "absolutely certain", then why
should one be astonishted that the proposition ...... is so equally
?
 
Can you say "I don't have to change my opinion that ...... " ?
 
I don't know what you mean, tell me exactly what you mean, or else
I may be cheated.
I need to know how it is used, do you know how to use it ?
 
An expression has any amount of use, then how if I tell you a word
......, can you have the use in your mind in an instant ?
 
Is this similar to nonsense or to something that is surprising ?
Are you inclined to call this nonsense ?
 
Is this nearer to the ordinary case or is it nearer to the absurt
case ?
 
Is that ...... a rule about the use of a symbol or symbols ?
 
Was ...... first introduced because of experience and now you have
made it independent of experience; a rule of expression for talking
about your experiences ?
 
Is it true that you have arranged your notation in such a way that
...... is meaningless ? and has been excluded ? Is it excluded for
experiencial reasons, however the statement that it is impossible
is not an experiencial statement ?
 
When you use ...... can you say it is impossible ? If so, is this
a rule of expression ?
Is this ...... a paradigm/an-object-of-comaprison and you want to
use it as a model ?
If yes, is it useful ?
        is it useless ?
 
Do you use ...... as a picture of an experiment ?
 
Do you use ...... as a stadard for the experiment, so it is non-
temporal ?
 
Do you use it as a historic description of an event, so it is
temporal ?
 
Do you use ...... to construct concepts ?
 
Do you use ...... to describe objects ?
 
Do you want to fix and teach ...... as a technique ?
 
Do you want ...... to serve as a paradigm which is timeless ?
 
Do you use ...... as a standard of comparison as a paradigm for the
technique ?
 
Do you want to make up your mind what you want to do with ...... ?
 
Before you answer the following questions don't gaze at a form of
words forgetting my asking you what is done with it. Don't gaze to
your own soul to see if two expressions have the same meaning but
gaze how you use it.
 
In your use of ...... is it meaningful to affix to ...... by
definition ?
 
Does ...... have its sense in a system of proofs ?
 
Do you want this sentence ...... to work ?
 
Would it is true that ...... make any difference how you use it
later ?
 
Leave alone it's meaning does ...... have a use ? If not why don't
you eliminate it ? If you do that wouldn't it be a modification
other than closing certain doors ? Would it ?
 
This shows what you do with ...... : Have you chosen ...... to get
to a certain point ?
You don't know what ...... means ? Want to try again ?
 
Do you have grounds for doubting that ...... ?
 
Has experience shown it to be unnecessary that ...... ?
Can you say that experience always proves you right that ......?
 
Does ...... state part of the picture you form to help you in the
judgement of various situations ?
 
Do you need to satisfy yourself by saying that ...... to be able to
act ?
 
If I pronounce the opposite of that ...... . would you regard me as
demented ?
 
Can you say: I cannot give you any grounds that ......, but if you
learn more you too will think the same ?
 
Does it make sense to doubt that ...... ?
Can you doubt that ...... ?
 
What is it like to make such a mistake as that ...... ?
 
What is it like to discover that ...... was a mistake ?
What could a mistake here be like that ...... ?
 
Is this ...... supposed to be an empirical proposition ?
 
Is the hypothesis ...... possible ?
 
Can you say if I am wrong about this ......, I have no guarantee
that anything I say is true ?
 
Can you say if you are wrong about this ......, you have no
guarantee that anything you say is true ?
 
What would the practical effects of this belief ...... be ?
Is it difficult to imagine why anyone should believe the contrary
?
What could induce you to believe the opposite ?
Can you imagine the opposite of ...... ?
 
Is this proposition ...... must be solid for you ?
 
Is this ...... a fact that you are certain of to be certain of the
meaning of your words ?
 
Can you say that it stands fast for me and many others that ......
?
Is it possible for you to doubt that ...... ? Why ?
Could you try to doubt that ...... ?
Can you say everything speaks for ...... ?
Can you say nothing against ...... ?
If you doubt that ...... how would your doubt come out in practice
?
If it makes no difference at all enjoy your doubt !!!
 
What are you doing in believing that ...... ?
What are you believing if you believe ...... ?
Can you say that one can only believe that ......, and even that
one can't believe ?
Why do you believe that ...... ?
    Have you reasons ?
    Do you need reasons ?
On what ground do you believe that ...... ?
What does this belief ...... consist in ?
 
Why should it be possible to have grounds for believing that ......
if it isn't possible to be certain ?
 
Can you say: nothing in the world will convince me of the opposite
that ...... ?
Can you say: for me this fact ...... is at the bottom of all
knowledge ?
Can you say: I shall give upother things but not this ...... ?
Can you say: I can't be wrong about it that ...... ?
Can you say: I cannot depart from this judgement without toppling
all other judgements with it that ...... ?
Can you say: I cannot be making mistake about it that ...... ?
If your use of that ...... is not to be a merely an observation
about grammar, can you give the circumstances in which this
expression ...... functions ?
 
If youdoubt that ......, would you have to doubt all sorts of
things that stands fast for you ?
 
Can you say that ...... is a hypothesis, which as you believe, is
again and again completely confirmed ?
Are you not ready to let anything count as a disproof of this
proposition ...... ?
 
Here you have arrived at a foundation of all your beliefs, what
would it be like to doubt ...... ?
What would you believe if you didn't believe that ...... ?
So far you have no system at all within which this doubt might
exist ? You have arrived at the rock bottom of your convictions ?
and one might almost say that these foundation walls are carried by
the whole house ?
 
Suppose it wasn't true that ...... ?
How should you imagine the mistake being discovered ?
 
If you know that ......, do you also know, or do you only believe,
that no future experience will seem to contradict your knowledge ?
If yes that is after all a decision. It is possible that you will
act against it.
 
Note: This is only a draft questionaire, it should be reorganised
in a test environment and enhanced accordingly. But most of these
questions would help to categorize the expression under
investigation and help strip the grammatical confusions. 
These questions are built out of the works of L.Wittgenstein.


