 R. G. Collingwood also took Cook Wilson as putting forth a slightly different thesis, namely that the meaning of a statement is determined by the question to which it is an answer (Collingwood 1938, 265 n.). He used this idea as the basis for his ‘logic of questions and answers’ (Collingwood 2013, chap. 5) and for his theory of presuppositions (Collingwood 1998, chaps. 3–4), this last being further developed by the French linguist Oswald Ducrot (1980, 42f.). Collingwood was reluctant, however, to recognize Cook Wilson as an inspiration, since he thought ill of the idea of ‘apprehensions’ as a non-derivative basis for knowledge and he believed instead that knowledge comes from asking questions first (Collingwood 2013, 25), and thus that knowledge depends on a ‘complex of questions and answers’ (Collingwood 2013, 37).