Rejecting the Question

ABSTRACT This article argues that the traditional taxonomy of doxastic attitudes leaves out an important alternative. That is the attitude of rejecting the question. Sundry examples of the phenomenon are presented and their unifying features are identified. One rejects a question when one treats it as if none of its answers were true. One can reject not only non-polar questions, but also polar ones (questions of the form whether p ). The stance of rejecting a question is further distinguished from interrogative attitudes in general, and from the third stance of the traditional taxonomy in particular.