Is there a question that has never been asked before?

Question

Or are we just keep repeating the same old questions?

From a philosophical point.

Answer 1

It is possible, some people can ask a previous question, but in a better way.

Answer 2

So, I take it that you weren't exactly referring to regular, everday questions. Because there will ALWAYS be new questions of that kind. But in the philosophical sense? I think yes. Because we don't know everything about this world yet, and the human mind is always curious. We'll always find something to speculate about in philosophy. Besides, we've never found "right" answers for most philosophical questions. So isn't the point to keep asking and to keep wondering? New people with fresh minds always come up with something new to say, with new insight. Like the question of discrimination between races and cultures and religions. Or the question about the tree that falls in a forest. Philosophical questions never become old, in a sense, as long as people ponder them with real sincerity.

Answer 3

If you consider this question or problem from the standpoint of the author(s) of Ecclesiastes, or Book of Wisdom, you might think "There is nothing new under the sun," and therefore make the assertion that no, there is no question that has not been asked before. A consideration of the histories and her stories might bear this claim up.

Yet if you consider as have the ancient Hindu scholars, that if the mind can conceive of such an idea, "a question that has never been asked before" (now or then?) I submit to you, gentle readers and watchers, inquisitive askers and daring answerers, that yes, there is at least one question that no one, or any one, has ever asked before this moment in time that I type this onto the space provided, or that you my friend, or you my enemy, or you my stranger, are now reading or re-reading this very answer of mine, submitted ever so daringly yet still with an honest humility.

Answer 4

From a philosophical point, NO. We keep repeating the same questions.

Answer 5

Sure. There are lots of them. One example is, "Do you think that 'Hoto' would be a better name for our new invention than 'Shmoto'?"

I imagine that people are creating, inventing, writing new things all the time, and new questions will grow of them. How long ago is it that a new question was, "Did you get my email," or "Would you take a photo of me by using my cell phone, please?"

There are yet to be incredible and new questions, such as, "Who would ever have thought we'd be having lunch on Mars?"

Or horrible ones, as well, such as, "Why is the earth melting under my feet?" "Why can't I see the sky in the day anymore?"

"Why didn't we stop each other from killing each other before, OMG! Help! Help! Am I the last person alive? Are those people or angels or.....?"

And on, you get the point....
Not very philosophical, but hey!

Answer 6

That could be answered linguistically or philosophically. In other words, do you mean just asking a question by putting words together or asking a question because you want to know the answer? For example, I could ask, "Has the blue horse in my nightmare drunk the lemonade from the trough that is on the roof of my doghouse?" I bet no one asked that before. But I did since I have in me the structures of the ability to put a question together with words. There are other issues you could get regarding your question, but maybe that's a start.

Answer 7

The questions will repeat until philosophers decide to stop being alone.

Logically, we are unlikely to know the 'last' possible question when we can no longer find questions.

Answer 8

originality will never cease. there's only so many ways to stick a few Lego bricks together, but with unlimited bricks (this is just a metaphor) originality in the pursuit of knowledge will not end. Mimicry is another story though.

Answer 9

Once you think or even ask a question, then that has been answered. If you think about it in this way, even if there wasn't a question that had been asked before--if you think and ask it yourself..it has. Wheras if that certain 'unasked' question never pops up in ones head it is left alone and unnoticed..therefore no one notices it and no one will ever know...

Answer 10

Experience has demonstrated to me that human beings are capable of anything within the realm of human thought and imagination. I have found what drives most people are basic instincts. These drives are desguised in various ways in order to protect ourselves from the reality that most of us will lie, steal and cheat to get what we want. Most of us are incapaple of reason beyond bigotry. And the moral center, which most of us present to the world is obstensible at best. There are very few of us who are really willing to drink the hemlock(i.e. Socrates and his demonstation of the most fundamental rule of philosophy: whay it is we ought not to lie.) Most of our understandin and practice of faith, hope and charity are perfunctory at best. Most of us are lazy and lack the will to have any meaningful conviction to live life on it's own terms as it comes. The majority of our lives are caught up in trying to control things, which we really have no control over. We rationalize our ineptitude with philosophy, psychology and "problems of modern life". Give our own devices, most of us wouldn't last 5 minutes in a world without electricity. Although 98 % of us have no functional idea on how it works.

Source(s):

Personal philosophy

Answer 11

i think all questions have been asked by someone to someone. but on answers, same old stuff it seems. no one wants to ask questions that could cause anger and arent politically correct.
and the questions that have been asked by a person to another person dont gve everyone the answer, just the asker!