I’ve mentioned several times the fourfold of Who, What, Why, and How, mostly because I perceive an association between it and Aristotle’s Four Causes: Who for Efficient Cause, What for Material Cause, Why for Final Cause, and How for Formal Cause.

Two other “W”’s, Where and When, weren’t mentioned because they add two more to the four, and don’t fit into the Four Causes anyway.

But evidently they are mentioned often with the first four, as the several links below indicate. These six questions are used in elementary education and even beginning journalism to elicit six answers. They also form three pairs as follows:

• Who – What
• Where – When
• How – Why

Further Reading:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Five_Ws

Every Proposal Needs Six Elements: Who, What, Where, When, Why, and How. The Rest is Mere Commentary.

The Who, What, Where, When and Why of Excellent Blog Writing

Other Images:

https://www.google.com/search?q=who+what+how+why+where+when&tbm=isch

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