Okay, if found this unanswerable question:
Will your answer to this question be no?
2006-06-29 09:32:06 · 18 answers · asked by Bunny Slippers 2 in Social Science ➔ Psychology
(It's unanswerable because if you say no, you ARE answering no, therefore the answer must be yes, but then your answer ISN'T no. Also, probably, maybe, etc. are your answers, so they would either fall under 'Yes' or 'No')
2006-06-29 09:38:43 · update #1
The questions isn't unanswerable -- rather, it's unquestionable. The eminent mathemetician and puzzle creator Raymond Smullyan deals with this sort of problem in his book "What Is the Name of This Book?" (now sadly out of print) and concludes that self referential questions of this type are simply the verbal equivalent of the square root of minus 1.
Ergo, this is not a real question, and so it doesn't have a real answer.
2006-06-29 09:46:05 · answer #1 · answered by samphire2003 2 · 9⤊ 0⤋
You couldn't have made the explanation more confusing. But I could answer "No I'll answer yes" Which is a no answer because I told you my answer rather than just saying one word. The fact that there is a no in the question there doesn't make it impossible to answer yes. It's all in how dependent you are on the question, the answer, and the English language. Since the question doesn't make any sense, and there really is no subject to the question, I could answer "The sheep is on the roof" and that would be a suitable answer to a question with no suitable basis.
2006-06-29 17:21:04 · answer #2 · answered by MED_SCHOOL 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
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2006-06-29 16:40:37 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Nope.
Why unanswerable?
:-)
2006-06-29 16:36:26 · answer #4 · answered by histone2005 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No. It will be a yes.
<3,
2006-06-29 16:35:33 · answer #5 · answered by sxenerdx <3s her sweet baby 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
In Afrikaans we have a answer... we say 'janee' meaning yesno..but it does not make sense in english...
My answer to your question would be no , because there are answers to all questions eventually..even the chicken and the egg..and we can question all answers too..
2006-06-29 16:44:32 · answer #6 · answered by Featherman 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Rutabaga!
2006-06-29 16:35:35 · answer #7 · answered by oh kate! 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Definitely maybe!Or maybe definitely.Oh my God....I thought computers were supposed to make things easier!
2006-06-29 16:39:43 · answer #8 · answered by nobody 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
BRAVO Samphire2003!!
2006-06-29 16:51:27 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Probably.
2006-06-29 16:36:19 · answer #10 · answered by Christina D 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋