Can all questions be explained using logic?

Question

When dealing with questions, are there some that cannot be answered?

Are there logical answers for every possible question?

Answer 1

Not all questions can be answered with logic. In particular, many religious questions cannot be answered with logic, as the answer is simply "because I believe it".

Much of faith is not logic based, but simply the act of having faith. This is actually one of the things I struggle with in my spiritual life, as my scientific brain wants logic to be applied, when there really isn't any.

Answer 2

No.

Some questions can not be answered in an acceptable manner, such as certain religious ones.

Answering with a positive to some questions is problematic too. Look no further then this web page. Can we answer "yes" to the question presented in this topic by using logic? The total number of possible questions in the universe is infinite, so its impossible to determine.

Answer 3

Hm... I believe there are some questions that cannot be completely answered by logic. Obviously, religious questions do not deal with pure logic. Religion is simply based on faith and belief.
Other questions that could not be answered with logic could involve the strange happenings of this mad, mad world. Everyone has heard of haunted houses and ghosts and vampires! Questions concerning those may not be based on pure logic.

Answer 4

Yes all questions can be answered logically. And I believe a religious or spiritual question can be answered logically that it is a matter of ones faith.

That to me is a rational way to use logic.

Even the admission that the issue seems to have no answer is a rational and logical conclusion.

Answer 5

Logic (in the pure sense) only applies to things that are subject to logical analysis, that is to say to things that have predictable behaviour and 'closed' answers. So a mathematical or geometrical (or linguistic) problem will have a 'logical' answer because the 'rules' exist in the subject, not in the arbitary interpretation of the person explaining the problem, or the person providing the answer.

Answer 6

Logic could tell you where you car keys are, why your wife is mad at you, and who let the dogs out. I just wanted to point that out.

Rhetorical questions and questions with negating premises cannot be answered with logic.

Rhetorical question:
'What the hell?'
Although rhetorical questions can be applied to and have meaning in specific situations, they are meaningless when used generally.

Negating premises question:
'Can God create a rock so big he can't lift it?'
Such questions contradict themselves, and are completely worthless and illogical.

Answer 7

There are many questions where logic provides no help:

1. where are my car keys?
2. why is my wife mad at me?
3. who let the dogs out?

Answer 8

As long as you consider a question a phrase used to obtain knowledge and provoke the brain, then yes.

Answer 9

yes. pretty much. the only problem is finding the answer. but there is an answer to all questions.

Answer 10

All questions don't have answers.
All answers don't have questions.