Kitap 3
5.5
Those who hold that every question concerns either things or words, mean much the same. It is also agreed that questions are either definite or indefinite. Indefinite questions are those which may be maintained or impugned without reference to persons, time or place and the like. The Greeks call them theses, Cicero Top. xxi. 79. propositions, others general questions relating to civil life, others again questions suited for philosophical discussion, while Athenaeus calls them parts of a cause.
5.6
Cicero Top. 81; Part. Or. xviii. 62. distinguishes two kinds, the one concerned with knowledge, the other with action. Thus Is the world governed by providence? is a question of knowledge, while Should we enter politics? is a question of action. The first involves three questions, whether a thing is, what it is, and of what nature: for all these things may be unknown: the second involves two, how to obtain power and how to use it.
5.7
Definite questions involve facts, persons, time and the like. The Greeks call them hypotheses, while we call them causes. In these the whole question turns on persons and facts.
