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Although you have to make the distinction between possibility and probability. Just because the question's written on a piece of paper he /can/ read, in the bottom of a locked filing cabinet (et al) doesn't mean he WILL read it. As demonstrated. QED.

So you do have to, if you're serious about wanting to be answered, specifically answer in here.

How about specifically questioning here too?

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That may have been what Njan meant... then again...

Ah, but do you really know the distinction between questions and answers? And after all, for the answerer, the question is an answer - an answer to the anticipatory wait FOR a question. So the borders of versicle and response are not as crystal clear and well-defined as you'd like to think.

* hides *

True.

So what do you make of this, Njan? "Solutions are the chief cause of problems."

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As the good Sir Bertrand Russell said, "Philosophy, if it cannot answer so many questions as it asks....". Taking that (rather disjointed) quote as a premise in itself, the following on of questions - or problems from solutions - or answers - is a logical once. This is for two reasons. a) a question within a question is generally taken to be part of the original problem. b) solutions - assuming they're new knowledge (and all logic being synthetic, inductive, and a posteriori, they will be) they will always open our eyes to new things about the world around us. In this manner, there will almost certainly be new things we wish to know, for our knowledge of the universe is far from complete.

Along those lines, solutions almost always lead onto - and thusly cause - new problems.