Animals are often considered to run by strict survival rules and instinct. While many would argue against it, for the purposes of reading this, it is best to approach as one who believes that they are just animals.
Humans have the unique ability to identify things and to bestow meaning on things. Aside from merely figuring out whether or not it's bad or good, they can also impose a sort of identity on things.
We also have the ability to question things given to us. We are able to deceive and be deceived and thus, require some sort of act to sort it all out. That action is the act of questioning.
Questioning blindly will result in blind answers. You must query the right things, ask for answers that will lead to more knowledge, even if it leads to more confusion and questions.
A question is answered in one of three methods - judgmentally, definitively or non-definitively. A definitive question gets a solid answer. The simplest example available can be explored in basic math - equations have definitive answers.
Definitive questions are the simplest because beyond nit-picking, what you get as an answer is what you get. There's no value assignment - as Aristotle said, "A is A".
There are some questions to which there are no universal answers, only personal ones. This is because each person has an opinion, a preference that others may share but in the end one that is wholly theirs. It is the subject and cause of intense debate among many would-be philosophers.
There are also questions that invite so much questioning that entire groups of people from a lot of different schools of thought, which allows them to answer a judgmental question with as many interpretations as possible to make sure that the final answer is as accurate as possible. This is thus one of the question types with the highest redaction rate.
Humans have the unique ability to identify things and to bestow meaning on things. Aside from merely figuring out whether or not it's bad or good, they can also impose a sort of identity on things.
We also have the ability to question things given to us. We are able to deceive and be deceived and thus, require some sort of act to sort it all out. That action is the act of questioning.
Questioning blindly will result in blind answers. You must query the right things, ask for answers that will lead to more knowledge, even if it leads to more confusion and questions.
A question is answered in one of three methods - judgmentally, definitively or non-definitively. A definitive question gets a solid answer. The simplest example available can be explored in basic math - equations have definitive answers.
Definitive questions are the simplest because beyond nit-picking, what you get as an answer is what you get. There's no value assignment - as Aristotle said, "A is A".
There are some questions to which there are no universal answers, only personal ones. This is because each person has an opinion, a preference that others may share but in the end one that is wholly theirs. It is the subject and cause of intense debate among many would-be philosophers.
There are also questions that invite so much questioning that entire groups of people from a lot of different schools of thought, which allows them to answer a judgmental question with as many interpretations as possible to make sure that the final answer is as accurate as possible. This is thus one of the question types with the highest redaction rate.
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