YES, YOU CAN STATE A FALSE QUESTION. A question itself can be based upon false p

YES, YOU CAN STATE A FALSE QUESTION.

A question itself can be based upon false premises. So yes, a question can posit a falsehood, just as a statement can posit a falsehood.

In fact, asking false questions is a conveniently deceptive means of stating falsehoods under the pretext of innocence. (The media does this all the time now – positing opinions, and statements, and arguments as questions as a means of escaping accountabiilty for their words: propagandizing).

Whenever someone asks a question, first restate it as an assertion (statement), then simply test whether it is true or false. This will identify people who are engaged in deceptions.

—“How do we prove everything is all just in our minds, or isn’t?”—

This question is based upon a falsehood: the conflation of logical proof of internal consistency, with the falsification of alternatives leaving a theory that survives as a truth candidate.

SPECTRUM:

1) Associable: it is possible by free association to identify a pattern of similarity between two ideas.

2) Reasonable: One constructs a route, or way, (wayfinding) within that system we call ‘reasonable’ to determine if an idea is reasonably conceivable without succumbing to ignorance, error, bias, wishful thinking, suggestion, loading, and framing, or overloading, platonism, supernaturalism, pseudo-rationalism, pseudoscience, or outright deceit.

3) Rational: non contradictory. One tests a statement for non-contradiction.

4) Proof: Logical Proof: One constructs a proof of internal consistency within an axiomatic system.

5) Fact: Observable Fact: One constructs a theory of observation, in an attempt to posit a fact.

6) Theory: Theoretical Truth: One constructs a theory of causality by external correspondence, and attempts to testify (promise, or speak) truthfully when describing it, by providing due diligence against its possible falsehoods.

7) Law; A theoretical truth that has survived testing in the market for ideas within which the proposition is defined.

9) Truth: ultimately most parsimonious description humanly possible given the limits specified in the conditions. (We do not know the first principles of the universe so we cannot yet state truths with any degree of reliability)

Curt Doolittle

The Propertarian Institute

Kiev, Ukraine