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As a manifestation of our communal belief in the power of asking questions, this thread is for the conducting of a conversation [or conversations] through questions and [therefore] counterquestions only.

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Do we need more threads like this that have a certain je ne sais quoi?

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Passion fruit cheesecake is the nicest flavor.

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@trev33 said
Passion fruit cheesecake is the nicest flavor.
I interpret that as a question presented in a kind of unquestioning blank prose. So I will answer you using the RHP Socratic Method:

Have you perhaps not compared passion fruit to enough nicer flavours before bandying about the word "nicest"?

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@fmf said
I interpret that as a question presented in a kind of unquestioning blank prose. So I will answer you using the RHP Socratic Method:

Have you perhaps not compared passion fruit to enough nicer flavours before bandying about the word "nicest"?
Isn’t it so that by asking enough leading questions, one can bring even an illiterate slave boy to recognize, apparently for the first time, that the angles of a triangle always add up to the same number, thereby disproving Plato’s contention that the boy remembered this from a previous life ?

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@moonbus said
Isn’t it so that by asking enough leading questions, one can bring even an illiterate slave boy to recognize, apparently for the first time, that the angles of a triangle always add up to the same number, thereby disproving Plato’s contention that the boy remembered this from a previous life ?
I hear what you say but will insinuating that Trev33 is "an illiterate slave boy" include or exclude him from this collective enquiry?

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@fmf said
I hear what you say but will insinuating that Trev33 is "an illiterate slave boy" include or exclude him from this collective enquiry?
Why would he insinuate such a thing when it is obvious for all to see ?

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@the-gravedigger said
Why would he insinuate such a thing when it is obvious for all to see ?
How is it possible to insinuate the obvious ?

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@moonbus said
How is it possible to insinuate the obvious ?
That was my point.

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@moonbus said
How is it possible to insinuate the obvious ?
Aren't people often clouded by their imaginations?

Couldn't it be that sometimes even the obvious needs to insinuate itself somehow?

Who can I talk to about the fact that agents are not necessarily standing by to help with this?

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@fmf said
Do we need more threads like this that have a certain je ne sais quoi?
Syllogismes?

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@fmf said
As a manifestation of our communal belief in the power of asking questions, this thread is for the conducting of a conversation [or conversations] through questions and [therefore] counterquestions only.
May I ask you to rephrase your OP in the form of a question?

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@trev33 said
Passion fruit cheesecake is the nicest flavor.
Is it?

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@fmf said
I interpret that as a question presented in a kind of unquestioning blank prose. So I will answer you using the RHP Socratic Method:
Are you sure that you did and that you have?

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@the-gravedigger said
That was my point.
Wouldn't it be better to use permeation or osmosis than a point?

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