I am trying to make a point. One cannot infinitely regress one’s explanations. At some point one starts engaging the brains’ basic machinery. Avoiding pain is a drive coming from our basic machinery. It is possible to explain how humans evolved pain. But it is pointless to ask for justification for wanting to avoid pain.
Ah. I suggest doing it differently next time. It is much clearer (and less deceptive) if you do not ask questions when you are trying to make a point. Instead, ask questions when you are curious about something and think someone has the answer, and use declarative statements (like those in the parent comment) to make a point. It should greatly aid in your communication.
I am trying to make a point AND I am curious about people’s answers to my questions. These are not mutually exclusive. It is my style to ask many questions.
If I don’t ask questions, I will have to make more assumptions about what you actually think. I don’t want to make declarative statements as if I already know exactly what you think about a topic. That is how people end up talking past each other. They don’t fully understand what the other one is trying to say.
Good meaning ‘useful for a particular purpose’, bad is its negation. Whether the middle is excluded might be a matter of contention.
What’s ‘useful’? What’s ‘purpose’?
Is the problem that English is not your first language?
I am trying to make a point. One cannot infinitely regress one’s explanations. At some point one starts engaging the brains’ basic machinery. Avoiding pain is a drive coming from our basic machinery. It is possible to explain how humans evolved pain. But it is pointless to ask for justification for wanting to avoid pain.
Incidentally, English is not my first language.
Ah. I suggest doing it differently next time. It is much clearer (and less deceptive) if you do not ask questions when you are trying to make a point. Instead, ask questions when you are curious about something and think someone has the answer, and use declarative statements (like those in the parent comment) to make a point. It should greatly aid in your communication.
I am trying to make a point AND I am curious about people’s answers to my questions. These are not mutually exclusive. It is my style to ask many questions.
If I don’t ask questions, I will have to make more assumptions about what you actually think. I don’t want to make declarative statements as if I already know exactly what you think about a topic. That is how people end up talking past each other. They don’t fully understand what the other one is trying to say.
You’re not a big fan of rhetorical questions, are you?
No