Someone asked me: "Why pose a Q which nobody has an A to?" Do you have a constructive A for that person?

Question

And for persons like him or her? Please remember, I'm asking it in the philosophy category and I'd appeciate philosophy-based answers. This is not a flip Q as it goes to the heart of the process of all inquiry by Q&A (& Discussions which is currently not allowed by the YA format) esp in philosophical inquiry.

I see alot of good A's. Constructive,helpful A's.

Answer 1

You can't know that nobody has an answer to the question until you ask it.

Then, after finding that a solid answer cannot be found, it can be discussed so that a satisfactory answer can be determined.

Answer 2

It seems as if you hit-the-spot,ht;
And for the people here who have answered that"all questions have an answer" ,has been an enlightening
experience for one such as me.
For im assuming they mean that included in this is the one
correct answer;
So, therefore,for these people above there is hardly a need
to learn-from-ones mistakes;well,just a rather trivial one in that the questioner who gets the incorrect answer,just hasnt
"asked"far enough or extensively enough(as someone else
answeed).
So ,here and now we can say that Learning from ones
mistakes involves none of this triviality;a mistake occurs when an answer is not available;And as we know that there
are as many false answers as correct ones,this happens a
lot.Therefore a methodical and consistant way to tell the
difference between incorrect and correct answers,is to make
the mistake and learn from it.
In the lives of the above people who believe mistakenly that
all questions have an answer, i can now see clearly that a
method such as learning-from-ones-mistakes is hardly a
method at all;for the mistake is made in not getting the correct answer in the first place;someone has written down or (like a teacher)just knows the answer anyway and the
person enquiring after it has just not "tried hard enough" in
their search(and failed to"find"it).
So i must thank the Original asker of the question here on yahoo answers; it hardly occurred to me that anyone should
believe that -all questions have an answer- and further more
they could well have been taught this at school.
For me,this begger's belief,as we say!
Nonetheless,armed with this knowledge,i and others will
continue to trust in "learning from ones mistakes"; even
original ones.

Answer 3

The question carries an assumption or is based on a hypothesis that has not been shown to be true. A question that cannot be answer by the asker, doesn't mean that someone else will not have the answer. Assuming that we here cannot answer the question is to project our inability onto others. To *know* that a question cannot be answred by "nobody" one must rule out 6.5 billion people. Making this assumption is problematic.

Further, as the asker is not aware of the answer, the questioner may receive the answer and not be aware that it is the correct answer. This also excludes that to any question that there may be more than one correct answer.

Logically, the question fails.

Answer 4

the possibility, and sometimes the hope that someone has an answer of some sort, even if you thought it non-existent. sometimes simply to see the reaction of another to it, be it to simply observe or to compare to yourself as a way of judging mentality, IQ or any other trait on interest. sometimes simply to see where it gets you in terms of insight or a discussion into the topic of the question and the answerer's perception.

and there's always the fact that just because one person cannot think of an answer or thinks there is no answer, it does not mean that nobody has an answer, or at least a sign pointing the right way.

Answer 5

It could be a way to gather ideas and look at another side of an issue or gather resources for further research.
Food for thought.

Answer 6

Philosophers use to spend many hours debating upon the number of angels that could fit upon a needle. We have a tendency for OCD and will nitpick over many trivial things.

Answer 7

3 things : - does the question actually have an answer ?
- does that person seek answers in the right places ?
- the right person to give the right answer is has maybe not read the question yet..

Answer 8

All questions have an answer, the real challenge is discerning which answer is actually the one that is true.

Answer 9

Some question may seem impossible to answer.You will get an answer. Although maybe not to your satifaction.

Answer 10

Go jump in the Lake