We therefore give a brief case study to demonstrate the potential of the present framework, but this is far from an exhaustive application of its usefulness for other substantive questions, nor is the case study described in complete rigor.
In cases of the comparison between non-adjacent time points (e.g., the first test and the last test in four test occasions), a set of customized contrasts would be beneficial for examining specific substantive questions, which is the approach taken in the current paper.
Charles Gibson and George Stephanopoulos, the moderators of Wednesday night's presidential debate on ABC, became the subject of a fierce and somewhat unexpected debate themselves on Thursday, as viewers, bloggers and television critics lamented what they described as an opportunity lost: a chance to ask the two candidates for the Democratic nomination substantive questions early and often.
"The Committee needs these emails to have some sense of the completeness of Secretary Clinton's self-selected public record and to formulate substantive questions for her on Benghazi," Gowdy said.
And (ii) who decides? "As for the substantive question of how to determine when the conflict has ended, well… it's very complicated, to say the least," Lederman continued.
For the distinction between definitional and substantive questions, see Alston's essay "Concepts of Epistemic Justification," in Alston 1989 pp. 81-114, Goldman 1979, and Steup 1996, chapter 2. 10.
Kevin Madden, a spokesman for Mr. Romney, said that while Mr. Romney was raising "substantive" questions about the immigration proposal, "other campaigns have spent the last couple of days lashing out in anger and taking shots".
"We are glad the president is seeking authorization for any military action in Syria in response to serious, substantive questions being raised," House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) said in a statement.
The RNC threw a temper tantrum against CNBC for their moderator's performance and demanded less adversarial and more substantive questions.
