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Question seems malformed. The answer to a ‘where’ question is referenced to ‘space’. ‘Where does space come from?’ is as odd a thing to ask as ‘when does time c
by jameshart 5y ago
Question seems malformed. The answer to a ‘where’ question is referenced to ‘space’. ‘Where does space come from?’ is as odd a thing to ask as ‘when does time come from?’, ‘how do methods work?’ or ‘why are there reasons?’
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- marginalia_nu 5y agoMaybe it's my philosophy-addled brain, but I think these all sound like excellent questions.
- bqmjjx0kac 5y agoThe answer to "where do babies come from?" is not "a uterus".
- jameshart 5y agoThat seems like an excellent, factually accurate answer to me.
- AnimalMuppet 5y agoIt answers the immediate cause, but there's a lot more than that going on. Because the answer ignores all the rest of what's going on, it's a bad (but still accurate) answer.
- _moof 5y agoThe point is that there are senses of the word "where" that have nothing to do with location, and it is one of those senses that is operative in the question "where does space come from."