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A question can smuggle in presuppositions. A question can clearly be asked in bad faith. "Did you stop beating your spouse yet?" is a bad question. So is "why
by drewcoo 5y ago
A question can smuggle in presuppositions. A question can clearly be asked in bad faith.
"Did you stop beating your spouse yet?" is a bad question. So is "why do atheists hate god?"
- gweinberg 5y agoYes, and a rhetorical question really isn;t a question at all, it's a statement disguised as one. If someone asks a question like "would you feel the same if the shoe were on the other foot?" and the reply is "as a matter of fact I would", you can be fairly confident the "questioner" would come back with "no you wouldn't".
- dublin 5y agoEvery question, and every answer carries with it a plethora of presuppositions. Cornelius van Til wrote some excellent works on presuppositions with respect to worldviews, but his work is much more easily understood by reading the works of Greg Bahnsen, a student of van Til's, who died at an early age about 25 years ago.