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(10) “Gout is not the cause of Brown’s ill-humor.” If none 
of these things moved you, I might put you on your defense by 
(11) “You think gout is the cause of Brown’s ill-humor,” or 
(12) “You think gout is not the cause of Brown’s ill-humor.” 
Or I might tickle you into an answer by the Irishman’s combina¬ 
tion of (9) and (2) 
(13) “Gout is the cause of Brown’s ill-humor, I dunno.” 
Or, becoming more emotional, I might try you with 
(14) “I’m sorry I don’t know the cause of Brown’s ill- 
humor,” 
(15) “I wish I knew the cause of Brown’s ill-humor,” 
(16) “(Oh) that I knew the cause of Brown’s ill-humor,” or 
(17) “The cause! The cause of Brown’s ill-humor!” 
By these and doubtless other means you might, be led to infer 
my general desire for information, and even my particular de¬ 
sire that you inform me, especially if you are of an obliging 
disposition, and keenly on the watch for a chance to show it. 
The uncertainty of such expedients, however, justifies the ex¬ 
pectation that there will be found in language methods more 
(b) Explicit. 
Outside of the question itself, for instance 
(1) “What is the cause of Brown’s ill-humor?,” I recall but 
two expressions which make an explicit appeal to another’s lin¬ 
guistic aid in making a conception sufficient. These are 
(2) “I wish you to tell mje the cause of Brown’s ill-humor,” 
and its imperative abbreviation, 
(3) “Tell me the cause of Brown’s ill-humor,” both of which 
will be examined somewhat closely in. juxtaposition with strictly 
interrogative forms. 
Answering now the possible query ‘What interrogation is,’ I 
feel it safe to say, in a general way, that it is one of several di¬ 
rect and explicit linguistic means of inducing another mind to 
give particular information. An exacter comprehension I hope 
to reach in chapters III and IV. 
Its control. 
By this I mean the influences which mould the interrogative 
judgment to a particular form; and these I find in the elected 
means of making a conception sufficient. 
To illustrate: If I do not know but wish to know the num- 
