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Old 14-04-2006, 08:01   #128
sLak
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Originally Posted by Gravitas
Nope. The intent of an earnest question is not to insinuate, but to discover. Answers should be treated accordingly.

The problem comes at the level of interpretation, where people ignore the fact that something is asked, rather than imposed.
Again, if it was your earnest intent to discover, there were a million other ways to ask.

As for asking a question just being a question... I am sure one of history's most insightfull thinkers (and all who came after him for that matter) wouldn't call his dialectic method 'just questions'. :)
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