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Feb 11, 2014 · 3.1 A formal approach: abnormic laws. 3.2 A pragmatic approach: explanatory contrast. 3.3 A metaphysical approach: answers as reasons-why. 3.4 Pointers to further reading. 4. Embedded (or indirect) questions. 4.1 Knowledge-wh and the imperative-epistemic theory of wh-questions.
1. Asking questions is a good way to improve beliefs. If you don't ask questions, you are likely to stick to whatever beliefs you already have, right or wrong. But if you ask questions, you open yourself up to potentially better beliefs. Socrates is said to have said: "All knowledge starts with doubt". Worse yet, if you don't ask questions, you ...
Jun 12, 2019 · Briefly put, questions are more important than answers because questions seek to understand–to clarify and frame and evaluate while answers, at their best, are temporary responses whose relative quality can decay over time, needing to be reformed and remade and reevaluated as the world itself changes. Of course, questions need to be updated ...
The titles themselves reveal an unambiguous emphasis on the logical and linguistic analysis of questions. And, as Ginzburg remarks, they all more or less agree on one thing, “that a question is a property of propositions, that property which specifies what it is to be an exhaustive answer”.
Feb 28, 2019 · The result is a definition of philosophical questions as questions whose answers are in principle open to informed, rational, and honest disagreement, ultimate but not absolute, closed under further questioning, possibly constrained by empirical and logico-mathematical resources, but requiring noetic resources to be answered.
Namely, that he thinks Philosophy is what we do when we're really lost - that is, when we don't know what questions to ask. Dennett thinks that when we do know the right questions, then its someone else's job to answer them - namely some kind of science whose business it is to give us a suitable answer that comports with the facts.
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Even if we cannot decide what the “right” answers are to philosophical questions by conducting experiments or surveys, reading up on the topic, doing calculations or consulting experts, we can decide which are the better answers by using other more subtle standards. For example, Lipman suggests impartiality, comprehensiveness and consistency, or precision, relevance, acceptability and ...
