In life, sometimes tricky situations occur when you do not know what to do, what to answer to the interlocutor. Some questions baffle us. There are various situations, including comic ones, when friends ask something, expecting an unusual response. If you think about it, what question cannot be answered “no” or “yes” under any circumstances? Thinking logically, it becomes clear to us that such sentences should begin with the words “how”, “what”, “what”, “why”, “where”, “why”. It is impossible to answer them positively or negatively, because the interlocutor requires specifics.
What question cannot be answered “no” is the one that initially implies a positive answer. Very often this is utter absurdity, and there are many examples: you breathe easy, are you alive? If you turn to the voice of reason, you will see a list of questions that can theoretically be answered in the negative, but in practice this will be inappropriate, ugly, or even life threatening. For example, the boss at work asks to make some complex project or to engage in a demanding client, although you don’t really want to do this, but it’s sometimes impossible to refuse. What question cannot be answered “no” is: do you love parents, etc.
In life, there are sometimes situations when in a conversation with an interlocutor there is nothing to say about his remark. From the point of view of linguistics, there is such a question that cannot be answered. The answer was originally laid down in it, so the interlocutor can only think, reflect on what was said. For this, the special term “rhetorical question” was coined, it is very often used by writers in works of art, poems, and philosophers also resort to it in order to emphasize a certain logical, semantic load. In fact, this statement, although expressed in interrogative form.
If we consider the problem, which question cannot be answered at all, then we should pay attention to those that, on the one hand, are rhetorical, and on the other, humanity has not yet found a clear, logical, and most importantly, correct answer to them. Although over the past centuries we have made significant progress in many sectors, we still do not know much. Each year, various print media make up a list of such issues, covering sometimes very serious topics. For example, does God really exist, what awaits a person
after death, is there life in other galaxies, when the end of the world comes, etc.
Very often, teachers give comic tasks to students to come up with a question that cannot be answered. No, of course, theoretically you can come up with an excuse for everything, but here it will not always be correct and logical. There are questions that are a joke or the beginning of philosophical reasoning. For example, why disinfect the injection site before a fatal injection, what will happen to a person if he is scared half to death twice, etc. There are many such questions, sometimes they occur in comic or logical tests.