Loaded Question

One concept. Four tiers of command. Which do you speak?

Category: Logic

Foundational Lexicontrick question
Executive Parlanceembedded assumption
Scholarly Discoursepresuppositional interrogative
Babel ZenithComplex Question
Origin: Logic

Etymology & Meaning

A question that contains a built-in assumption.

In the Boardroom

'Have you stopped cooking the books?' - assumes you ever did.

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