21. Controlling the Question
Is drinking milk healthy for humans?
What are the healthiest drinks for humans?
What Constitutional rights should we
keep?
Has the Constitutional right to bear
arms outlived its usefulness?
Are single-sex schools better for education?
What is the best method of education?
22. Controlling the Question
Open Questions
What are the healthiest
drinks for humans?
What Constitutional
rights should we keep?
What is the best
method of
education?
Yes-or-no Questions
Is drinking milk
healthy for humans?
Has the Constitutional
right to bear arms
outlived its usefulness?
Are single-sex
schools better for
education?
23. Open Questions
Are Topic or Theme Questions
What are the healthiest
drinks for humans?
What Constitutional
rights should we keep?
What is the best
method of
education?
24. Yes-or-no Questions
Are Issue Questions
Is drinking milk
healthy for humans?
Has the Constitutional
right to bear arms
outlived its usefulness?
Are single-sex
schools better for
education?
25. An Issue Question: is a
yes-or-no question, and is
the way to formulate
questions for the disputed
question method (quaestio
disputata).
26. The Disputed Question Method
yes:
Reasons supporting
the yes answer or
refuting the no answer.
Which side
has the better
reasons?
the question
no:
Reasons supporting
the no answer or
refuting the yes
answer.
27. The Disputed Question Method
yes:
Reasons supporting
the yes answer or
refuting the no answer.
Is drinking
milk
healthy?
Which side
has the better
reasons?
no:
Reasons supporting
the no answer or
refuting the yes
answer.
28. The Disputed Question Method
yes:
Reasons supporting
the yes answer or
refuting the no answer.
Is the right
to bear arms
still useful?
Which side
has the better
reasons?
no:
Reasons supporting
the no answer or
refuting the yes
answer.
29. The Disputed Question Method
yes:
Are singlesex schools
better for
education?
Reasons supporting
the yes answer or
refuting the no answer.
Which side
has the better
reasons?
no:
Reasons supporting
the no answer or
refuting the yes
answer.
30. A virtue is an excellence, a
mean between two extremes
called vices.
