open question
noun
Roget 461:
inquiry;
request
etc.
765;
search,
research,
quest,
pursuit
etc.
622.
examination,
review,
scrutiny,
investigation,
indagation†;
perquisition†,
perscrutation†,
pervestigation†;
inquest,
inquisition;
exploration;
exploitation,
ventilation.
sifting;
calculation,
analysis,
dissection,
resolution,
induction;
Baconian method†.
strict inquiry,
close inquiry,
searching inquiry,
exhaustive inquiry;
narrow search,
strict search;
study
etc.
(consideration)
451.
scire facias [Lat.],
ad referendum;
trial.
questioning
etc.
v.;
interrogation,
interrogatory;
interpellation;
challenge,
examination,
cross-examination,
catechism;
feeler,
Socratic method,
zetetic philosophy†;
leading question;
discussion
etc.
(reasoning)
476.
reconnoitering,
reconnaissance;
prying
etc.
v.;
espionage,
espionnage [Fr.];
domiciliary visit,
peep behind the curtain;
lantern of Diogenes.
question,
query,
problem,
desideratum,
point to be solved,
porism†;
subject of inquiry,
field of inquiry,
subject of controversy;
point in dispute,
matter in dispute;
moot point;
issue,
question at issue;
bone of contention
etc.
(discord)
713;
plain question,
fair question,
open question;
enigma
etc.
(secret)
533;
knotty point
etc.
(difficulty)
704;
quodlibet;
threshold of an inquiry.
[person who questions]
inquirer,
investigator,
inquisitor,
inspector,
querist†,
examiner,
catechist;
scrutator scrutineer scrutinizer†;
analyst;
quidnunc [Lat.]
etc.
(curiosity)
455.
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Roget 475:
uncertainty,
incertitude,
doubt;
doubtfulness
etc.
adj.;
dubiety,
dubitation†,
dubitancy†,
dubitousness†.
hesitation,
suspense;
perplexity,
embarrassment,
dilemma,
bewilderment;
timidity
etc.
(fear)
860;
vacillation
etc.
605;
diaporesis†,
indetermination.
vagueness
etc.
adj.;
haze,
fog;
obscurity
etc.
(darkness)
421;
ambiguity
etc.
(double meaning)
520;
contingency,
dependence,
dependency,
double contingency,
possibility upon a possibility;
open question
etc.
(question)
461;
onus probandi [Lat.];
blind bargain,
pig in a poke,
leap in the dark,
something or other;
needle in a haystack,
needle in a bottle of hay;
roving commission.
precariousness
etc.
adj.;
fallibility.
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