What is an answer that does not answer?

Well, didn’t you read the subject line? Huh?

" What answer does not answer?"

Who knows?

^^ there it is.

Silence?

echo

-Imp

What is it to answer?

To answer is to convey a specific thought based on prior information. This action is idealistic in that there is (in my opinion) no way to bridge the language gap. Likewise, if we are to take an answer as complete in the aesthetic word we have the logical base undercut.

In this sense every answer is an answer which does not answer as in the end all we have are ideas moving around in a cerebral shitstorm we as philosophers revel in.

So, just for fun,

Answer: The question’s falsity is dependant on the reader’s perscription glasses.

A Question.

Simple, No answer. If it is an answer then it necessarily answers.

I think a good puck on the ear for the poster and move on!

Krossie

I would have opted for a brick, but to each their own.

:smiley: !

“I think a good puck on the ear for the poster and move on!”

Interesting, I have never heard a statement like this. I cannot figure out the meaning. My reasoning: You are thinking of a hard plastic round disk is hanging from someone’s ear? Or, are you thinking of somehow throwing a plastic disk into a person’s head?

Sincerely,
Socrates

My dear Socrates,

What is this plastic that you speak of? A hard disc cabable of being molded, perhaps? Diskos plastikos?

Best regards,
Xenophon

The answer to a rhetoric question.

The answer to a prayer of an atheist.

Its an Oirish and I think a Scottish expression just means a bit of a “bang” or a blow to the old ear…I see puck is also some sort of mischievous fairy and a goat.

Krossie

Haha! I don’t know myself. I had originally thought the answer to be religion, or “god”, but decided that would piss too many people off. Perhaps an incorrect answer answers nothing.

Maybe I need a peck on the cheek for being so ingenious. Pucks darn well hurt.

Dear Xenophon,

What is this molding that you speak of? For surely you do not mean what I think you mean. To mold is to change into something new, so the puck, whence flying across to the person’s head, would no longer be a puck, but something else. The shooter would be shooting a puck, but the thing in the ear will no longer be a puck. Please, explain me this.

Sincerely,
Socrates (I am not trying to corrupt you)

Dearest Socrates,

What is the meaning behind your quesiton that is asking what is the molding that I have spoken of? Surely you know the answer yourself.

Best,

(pre-christian) Xenophon.