Also what contentious arguers (less so nowadays than formerly) aim at would have been achieved, namely that the person questioned should answer either 'Yes' or 'No'; whereas nowadays the improper forms in which questioners put their questions compel the party questioned to add something to his answer in correction of the faultiness of the proposition as put; for certainly, if the questioner distinguishes his meaning adequately, the answerer is bound to reply either 'Yes' or 'No'.