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| Mar 8, 2018 at 17:02 | comment | added | Yechiam Weiss | yeah I would definitely accept that sort of reasoning (and I sense it in your answer, although I think it'd be nice to include the Popper comparison). I would still like to search for more options, so I won't accept your answer, just upvote it because it's a definitely acceptable one :) | |
| Mar 8, 2018 at 13:31 | comment | added | Geoffrey Thomas♦ | On your first point, we agree that I cannot enumerate and specify all philosophical questions and show that 'dropped' questions are revivable. But perhaps we could apply a dose of Popper here : if we could indicate one question that was not revivable in any form, that would refute the idea that all philosophical questions are revivable. | |
| Mar 8, 2018 at 12:22 | comment | added | Yechiam Weiss | b) [note- this is directly related to the question, but rather derived from it:] I think we could go on from here to ask (or conclude, by your answer) if actually all philosophical questions are eternal, in the sense that we can never have a finite, definitive answer to them (related to my "metaphysical controversies" question). We could also go ahead and ask if there's actually any "new" questions in philosophy, as we can see that maybe they're all just reformations and reinterpretations of the old questions. But that's maybe a topic for a different post. | |
| Mar 8, 2018 at 12:22 | comment | added | Yechiam Weiss | Thanks for the answer. I have a couple of notes: a) that last paragraph is the most important one - "clearly I cannot show that every question is revivable". This is where my question comes in really - is it clear that we cannot show that every question is revivable, or, that we cannot show that a single question is unrevivable? (maybe my very own question is a non-question, because it can't really have a definitive answer, but that's actually a different sense of non-question.) | |
| Mar 8, 2018 at 10:26 | history | answered | Geoffrey Thomas♦ | CC BY-SA 3.0 |