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[pgtipzy2k]

what is the process of 'replying to a question, with another question' called?

[Quizmonster]

There is no single name for the process of answering one question with another or for the person who does so. However, here's a variety of possibilities for you to consider:-
counter-question(er), quasi-answer(er), verbal tennis(-player), query logic(ian), the Socratic approach (a Socrates). Socrates used questions to force his students to seek further questions. Finally, there's aporia, which is a process in logic/rhetoric whereby a speaker reveals doubt...ie may be asking a question. Perhaps you'd care to pick one of these?

[secretsquiz]

why do you ask? ;)

[babybop6379]

generally it is a rhetorical question

[Quizmonster]

A rhetorical question is one for which the asker doesn't really expect an answer. If someone says, after making a point: "Do you think I'm an idiot?"...he doesn't really expect you to say: "Yes", does he? He is saying it purely to stress the fact that - in his eyes at least - he isn't an idiot. I don't think that is quite what you had in mind, Pg, is it?

[pgtipzy2k]

NO, ure quite right.

I knew that rhetorical was different.

However, two of my friends have been trying to find the answer to the original question, without much luck.

[brian j john]

what do you want to know for secretsquiz

[Peter Pedant]

My English master - he got an obituary in the Times to the surprise of us all - insisted that a rhetorical question was one which it was dangerous to answer.

He repeated it - to give it emphasis - and then probably went on - are you listening Pedant?