Are there any question never been answered?

@jobmoone (442)
Philippines
March 5, 2010 11:45pm CST
When I was In my childhood days I often ask my Uncle anything that comes up in my mind. Most of it has been answered while others maybe limited to my uncle's knowledge. But are there really unanswered question?
3 responses
• Philippines
17 Sep 10
Philosophically speaking, all questions were not given answers that are final. Though some questions are answered but they do not give a full account answer. Some still disagree to it. It is because in philosophy questions are more important than answer. There is only one question yet we differ on our answer. I would say that no creature can give a full account on the world. Though the Greeks regarded man as the rational animal and have the power to think and know things, we still doubt that capacity of man. The question is that can we really know. I am reminded of the philosopher named Immanuel Kant who asked three questions that would define man. "What can I know? What ought I to do? What may I hope?" Kant said that our knowledge has its limits and we can never know the things that are beyond our capacity. The questions concerning God, freedom, and immortality are the matters that we cannot know and cannot be answered. Kant said: "Our human reason has this peculiar fate in one species of its cognition that it is burdened with questions which it cannot dismiss, since they are given to it as a problems by the nature of reason itself, but which it also cannot answer, since they transcend every capacity of human reason. In this regard, the question concerning God, freedom, and immortality is beyond our reach and we may resort to the humility of Ludwig Wittgenstein who once said the "what we cannot speak about we must remain silent."
• India
6 Mar 10
Yes, there are many. If you would go to the discussions I have started you will find questions such as If a doctor suddenly had a heart attack while doing surgery, would the other doctors work on the doctor or the patient; If ghosts can walk through walls and glide down stairs, why don't they fall through the floor; and We all have been to movie theaters, sometime or the other. Have you wondered while sitting in your seat, which armrest is yours? Please answer them if you please.
@common_man (1799)
• India
6 Mar 10
It is said every question has an answer. Some times we do not know the answer, because of limitation of our knowledge. But there must be some one somewhere knowing answer to that question. Problem is we do not know who is that person and where he is.