Someone made a bold statement tonight that there was only one possible answer to the question: "what is the difference between 3 and 5." Even after said persons received more than one answer to the question, they insisted that no matter what anyone thinks, there is and always will be one answer to that question. I disagree.
So here's my question...is there any one question out there that everyone in the entire world can have one answer too? I have racked my brain, and personally cannot think of one.
In my opinion, this is what makes humanity so interesting. If there was no room for discussion, wouldn't life be boring? Is everything not open to some form of interpretation or another?
What do you think? Can you think of the be all and end all of all questions?
How's this, the first person to come up with one, I'll comment and rate your next five posts...
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anwser: yes.
Mooch
What are the 4 seasons during a year, factual based question.
Anything opinion based would be varied answers.
Mooch
We should now just answer life's questions with WWSBD?
I WIN!!
I'm lost as usual on the drama. LOL
Nellie is the evilest, yeah!
If it's an opinion, there's always more than one answer, that's what makes good discussions, no?
If somebody says, how many days in the week, then wouldn't the only answer be seven? Unless there's somewhere else in the world that has less/more?
Nellie, evil? Nah, she's not really. :)
There are almost always many answers to any question. The vagueness of our language alone is sufficient to make that true.
In the case of "what is the difference between 3 and 5 we could talk about quantity, (the difference is two) or we could talk about the difference between the shapes of the digits "3" and "5" or we could talk about the number systems for base 3 and for base 5. We could talk about the difference in interaction between three things and five things.
If we talk about how many days in a week we have the problem of those few weeks which have an additional second so some weeks have 7 1/86400 days. We also should consider how a day is defined. There was a time when a day was from dawn to dawn or dusk to dusk. That also gives different results when we justapose the modern definition of "day" with the ancient definition of "week."
Thanks Larry! Your absolutely right about the vagueness of our language, and I can't believe the smug people who think they know it all!
Great question! I don't believe there is any one answer to any question. Of course, it doesn't make all answers correct either.
It all depends on how you think. I perfer open ended questions and the exchange of thoughts that it brings.