If someone answers a question right but doesn't know why it is right, is it still a right answer?

Answer 1

You have discovered the significance of the subjective and the objective! Is an answer right because I "feel" that it should be or because it is the correct answer. Is there an objective reality outside our own dispositions that determines the nature of reality? Mathematics should be your test case in this regard.

Answer 2

The only way and I mean the only way to answer a question right without knowing why it is right is by making a wild guess as to why its right. Think about it like this if you answer a question right then usually you thought about it and using your prior experience and knowledge you answer it correctly because you know the meaning of the word right and what it means to be right therefore using your idea of what is right in your mind you decide whether the first answer that came to minds when you thought of the question is right or not. Its a black or white question in your mind either you believe your answer to the question is right or wrong and if you give the right answer without knowing why it is right then the only way that happened is you made a wild guess but that does not change the fact that the answer you gave is right. Furthermore the righness of the answer you gave is contingent on your idea of rightness matching with the idea of rightness that the questioner has if the two are one and the same then your answer is right regardless of whether you know why it is right or not!!!

Answer 3

Yes. Sometimes you can stumble upon the right answer accidentally. Sometimes a child can come out with the perfect simple answer to a complex question that adults have grappled with for ages. Sometimes wisdom comes unexpectedly, through an unlikely source and they don't even know why. Perhaps it's the voice of God speaking through them...

Answer 4

Yes.

Since the ask-er, not the answerer, needs the right answer, it only matters that the ask-er understands the answer.

And yes, before someone says it, it *is* possible that the ask-er would understand the answer even if the answerer did not.

It's like a teacher who doesn't understand the material. He or she just reads the material to the class without understanding it. Ultimately, it only matters that you, the student, understand what is being read to you.

Answer 5

I think it depends on the environment in which the answer was given. Say for instance you're playing "Jeopardy!" They don't care why you know an answer, they just want the right answer.

But if the person you are about to marry asks you why you love them (you tell them you love them all the time) and you don't know why, then you have a problem. The right answer isn't enough in this case.

Answer 6

Yeas, because right answers depends on tow things: THE MIND AND THE HEART.

Your mind tells you why your answer is right, but your heart doesn't.

Don't ignore your emotions when you speak, because a lot of our thoughts depends on our emotions.

Answer 7

Which would you rather get.... Wisdom from a fool or foolishness from an expert?

Answer 8

yes !there are many avenues to get to any 'one' answer. so ppl may have different formulas. and THENNNN there is WOMENS INTUITION WHERE WE JUST "KNOW" WE R RIGHT! :)

Answer 9

yes, right is right,,, even if we dont know why we know,, we can still have deep knowledge

Answer 10

it is guessing. does not really count.
in medical school guessing is punishable by minus points- you either know or do not know. If you guess- the patient dies.