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[OT] Yes-or-no questions (was: [OT] Was: Dynamic form generation) [message #177936 is a reply to message #177908]

Sat, 28 April 2012 05:56

Thomas 'PointedEars'
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Tony Marston wrote:

> "Erwin Moller" [wrote]:
>> On 4/24/2012 11:10 AM, Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn wrote:
>>> It is a yes-or-no question, therefore it cannot be incorrect.
>>
>> Yes, even yes-or-no questions can be incorrect, in the sense that both
>> "yes" and "no" are incorrect answers.
>>
>> Here is an example:
>> "This sentence is not true. Is the former sentence correct? Yes or no?"
>
> Your example is irrelevant.

It is not irrelevant, but it is wrong. A yes-or-no question that cannot be
answered with a simple "yes" or "no" is _not_ incorrect. But it is harder
to answer. It also *might* indicate a fallacy, in which latter case the Zen
masters have given us the word "mu" to avoid a wrong answer.

> The original statement came in 2 parts:
> (1) "This means that you perform no type conversion or checking, or range
> checking in the application."
> followed by the question
> (2) "yes?".
>
> The question (2) I read as "is the statement (1) correct or incorrect?" to
> which I answered "incorrect".

And there you are wrong. It was _not_ a statement, it was a *question*.
Statements end with a period. Questions end with a question mark. This
sentence ended with a question mark. A reasonable answer to that question,
since it was a yes-or-no question, would have started with "Yes" or "No" or
be a statement having these words as bottom line. But _not_ "Correct" or
"Incorrect". I concede that it was a suggestive question, but that does not
make it incorrect.

The way the Subject header field was changed here is inappropriate. For a
start, it is insufficient to tag a posting as off-topic; the new topic needs
to be provided as well. The common, reasonable and accepted change is
described at <http://www.netmeister.org/news/learn2quote.html>. There you
(Tony) will also find a description on the attribution that you are still
ignoring.

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