Friday, April 13, 2018

Question

A friend spoke to us about Greek philosophy.  Much seems to have come from Socrates (469-399 BCE).  So, it can be that humans developed speech, they developed writing and they used writing to try making progress with the puzzles of life.  Why are we here? How did we get here? What shall we do here?


Asking questions can lead to better questions and sometimes to good answers.  You can look in the upper left corner of my basic blog page and search out various statements about questions.  I assume that all languages have ways to ask questions and to invite information. I am curious about the development of the idea of questions and of grammatical constructions that ask.  While looking in Google Search about questions, I clicked on images. It can be instructive and fun to see what artists can do with a concept. Here is a link to the images Google Search finds with the search term "question":


https://www.google.com/search?q=question&newwindow=1&rlz=1C1CHBF_enUS758US758&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwj70ondirXaAhWBm4MKHf7HCFgQiR4IrAI&biw=1280&bih=599


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