wonders whether

• CURIE: gmeow:wondersWhether
• IRI: https://blackcatinformatics.ca/gmeow/wondersWhether
• Category: property
• Defined by: gmeow:slices/inquiry
• Box roles: RBox role (What is this?)

An agent entertains a question — typically a polar one — without committing inquiry effort to resolving it: the idle, low-investment erotetic attitude, weaker than actively inquiring. Range OPEN, like gmeow:asks. Non-functional. From whose vantage and over what period ride the statement, never a resolved bit here.

Structure

Property shape: object property; gmeow:Agent -> ?

Practical Pattern

Use gmeow:wondersWhether from gmeow:Agent to ? when the relationship itself belongs in the native GMEOW graph.

Common Companion Terms

gmeow:Agent

Usage Advice

Use when

• Use to record an agent idly entertaining a question — typically a polar one — without committing effort to answer it; the low-investment erotetic leaning, distinct from active inquiry.

Avoid when

• Avoid using it where the agent is actively pursuing an answer (use gmeow:inquiresInto) or aiming at a resolution (use gmeow:seeksToKnow); wondering is entertaining the question, not working on it, and never a factive verdict about its answer.

How to use

• Point the agent at the question it entertains; promote to gmeow:inquiresInto when effort is committed, and mark resolution by an gmeow:accepts / gmeow:knowsThat over an gmeow:answers-claim (the epistemics spine) rather than a new resolved term.

Scope notes

• A question is OPEN for the agent until the agent gmeow:accepts / gmeow:knowsThat an gmeow:answers-claim for it; resolution REUSES the epistemics spine, so there is no new 'resolved' term (Principle 6). Reopening closes the prior accepted answer with gmeow:displayable false (Principle 10), never deletion.

Examples

• ex:lillith gmeow:wondersWhether ex:willItRain.