Questions as the Foundation: Academic Boundaries Among Genuine Questions, Pseudo-Questions, and Fabricated Problem Settings

LU Tianjian

doi:10.21656/1000-0887.472064

Volume 47 Issue 8

Aug. 2026

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LU Tianjian. Questions as the Foundation: Academic Boundaries Among Genuine Questions, Pseudo-Questions, and Fabricated Problem Settings[J]. Applied Mathematics and Mechanics, 2026, 47(8): 959-977. doi: 10.21656/1000-0887.472064

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Questions as the Foundation: Academic Boundaries Among Genuine Questions, Pseudo-Questions, and Fabricated Problem Settings

doi: 10.21656/1000-0887.472064

LU Tianjian^,

Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Nanjing 210016, P.R.China

Received Date: 2026-07-11
Rev Recd Date: 2026-07-11

Available Online: 2026-07-30

Publish Date: 2026-08-01

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Previous editorials of this journal have discussed academic lineage, intelligent tools, criteria for evaluating research, disciplinary direction, and human development in an age of increasingly powerful tools. A more prior question must now be asked: what gives a study the right to begin, and under what conditions does its underlying question genuinely stand?
- problem awareness,
- genuine questions,
- scientific abstraction,
- pseudo-questions,
- fabricated problem settings,
- applied mathematics,
- mechanics,
- artificial intelligence,
- academic judgment

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