Skepticalman87
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Just because a question can be asked doesn't necessarily mean that it has an answer. This could be for the simple reason that the question is not formed correctly. For instance,
"what does yellow smell like?"
That question has the elements of a proper english sentence, but that doesn't escape the fact that the question cannot be answered because a color in itself does not involve smell.
There are, however, questions that can be asked that have a perceivable answer, but at the same time an answer than cannot be found through logic. (at least it appears to be that way) For instance,
"What happens when an immovable object meets an unstoppable force?" (To avoid anyone actually trying to answer this question I want to add the constrains that this force cannot ricochet in another direction and that the immovable object has a flat surface so that the force would not glance off to one side)
"Why is there anything rather than nothing?"
"Isn't it infinitely improbable that anything exist rather than absolutely nothing exist? And, from that stand point, is an ultimate creator or a tiny piece of matter not equally probable as a beginning piece for everything because they are both infinitely less probable than nothing?"
"What is a thought?"
"What is infinity?
These are some questions that I can imagine there being an answer to, but believe that there is no way to find that answer through logic. To ask these questions is to reach a proverbial dead end in thought.
I'd like to know what others think of these questions.
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05-08-2008 01:38 AM
