Can any of you philosophers prove that it doesn't?
2006-10-17 20:28:48 · 23 answers · asked by NecropolisXR 6 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
yes, this does exist, coz im answering it. and i will get 2 for this right after i submit!
prove me wrong.
2006-10-17 20:32:40 · answer #1 · answered by mimpi 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There is a difference between the logical answer (which is "yes") and the philosophical answer. How do you define existence? What is real? Real questions have a life of their own. Questions, in philosophy, are like energy, in physics.
What is the meaning of a question? What's it's potential? Where is it leading us?
Your question might seem pointless. But, we have to ask ourselves - what is a pointless question? Is there an absolute question? A question that has an absolute answer? Absolute knowledge. We know God has no questions. To God - all questions are pointless.
We are humans. Questions guide us. Even questions like yours can make me think. The 1st one is more interesting.
The answer to the second one ("Can any of you philosophers prove that it doesn't?") is simple - no. But that doesn't mean that your question really exists! Because of the problems of defining "real" and "existence".
2006-10-17 22:12:16 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Only if the Yahoo Community deems it a real question. If they don't then it will be deleted. If it is deleted then poof magically it was like it was never here. Point in fact when you touch my icon you get one number of best answers for me and if you click on the icon You will get a lower number. Why? Questions got deleted and I lost best answers. Now this may be the best answer, in my opinion it definitely is, but; I may still lose all points and credit for making it. BTW, absent an interogative (Who, What, Where, When, How) The four words you have used can be organized into: Question this does exist.; This question does exist.; Exist this question does.; etc... My point is that absent punctuation all you have is four words.
2006-10-17 21:17:56 · answer #3 · answered by LORD Z 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Philosophers were able to prove that we and the whole universe might not be existing (skepticism), so I don't think they will find it difficult to prove that your question does not exist!
2006-10-17 23:17:20 · answer #4 · answered by A Muslim 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
This question does currently exist, and the only way to prove that it doesn't is for someone to report it and have it deleted, but even then it'd still exist in some of our minds, and definitely yours.
So I guess how you choose to define existence, be it physical, tangible, or whatever.
2006-10-17 22:01:11 · answer #5 · answered by boo! 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It will reflect on your account (-5) and it will reflect on ours (+2) so it is accountable. It has a display. And it is by penmanship and structure clearly intended to make sense. It would be different if you were to type some incoherent sequence like for example : hi/&%n+"nakk,!! or a coherent stating sentence like: " this question exists". They would both exist but not as a question.
The( hi/&%n+"nakk,!!) example I gave could be converted in to a question using an encoding dynamic. The opposite mechanism used to encode a coherent message.
2006-10-17 21:44:11 · answer #6 · answered by Loser Millionaire 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A question does not exist.
It is our interpretation that what you have done (an event comrising of You + PC + Yahoo + internet + letters + symbols) is a question. What you did was simply an 'event' that passed as soon as it happened. For an alien life form, your event may not be interpreted as a question.
2006-10-17 21:19:18 · answer #7 · answered by WizardofID 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Existence of any thing is inevitable; and thus the question too exists. Consider the inward cause of reaction, provocation for reaction and its consummation. Was it possible without its existence?
2006-10-17 20:58:25 · answer #8 · answered by thinkpose 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes to question 1.
No to question 2.
2006-10-17 20:55:02 · answer #9 · answered by backinbowl 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Very difficult to conclude, because it works both ways.
Since the question is not about the answer to the question itself, but its existence, there is no question as such, yet when asking about a question, it is also a question !
2006-10-17 21:05:55 · answer #10 · answered by Spiritualseeker 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Not anymore because you have answers to it.
Do my 2 points really exist?
How do I know where they really are?
and
What do they look like?
2006-10-17 20:40:36 · answer #11 · answered by Mary* 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋