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I think people infer or invent some implicit context to the question, for example to make the question meaningful. Here we could posit they invent ("The asker

I think people infer or invent some implicit context to the question, for example to make the question meaningful. Here we could posit they invent ("The asker wants to know if I think it's likely Linda is a feminist or not") (which is kind of the same thing that you said - creating opposing alternatives out of the given alternatives). Most people avoid trying to understand stuff literally, and people are not logical machines.

xg15 3y ago
> Here we could posit they invent ("The asker wants to know if I think it's likely Linda is a feminist or not") I think it's more than "inventing" a context here, the entire blurb that came before the question ("Linda majored in philosophy and as a student she was very deeply concerned with discrimination..." etc) hints to the reader that this is the context. Or alternatively "how likely do you think is it that such a person ends up as a bank teller". The punchline is of course that neither context is correct and the actual context is just about detecing a tautology, which is what most people are probably not prepared for.