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19 Nov 2012, 3:52 pm

Quite literally,

What is the answer to this question?

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19 Nov 2012, 3:54 pm

Too deep, bro.

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19 Nov 2012, 3:58 pm

What ever I want it to be.

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19 Nov 2012, 4:07 pm

Krabo wrote:

What is the answer to this question?

What is the answer to what is the answer to this question?

If you know the answer, you may want to read WV Quine's book on paradoxes. And there is a web site "The Man Who Wrote The Man Who Wrote Danny Boy", or there used to be.

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19 Nov 2012, 4:10 pm

It's whatever you want it to be.

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19 Nov 2012, 4:10 pm

42

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19 Nov 2012, 5:04 pm

The answer is "what".

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19 Nov 2012, 5:09 pm

thechadmaster wrote:

42

:lol:

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21 Nov 2012, 3:45 pm

This is the answer to the question.

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21 Nov 2012, 4:30 pm

forkful_of_soup wrote:

The answer is "what".

The 2nd baseman

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22 Nov 2012, 1:42 am

MotoScooby wrote:

This is the answer to the question.

Excellent!

Trencher93 wrote:

Krabo wrote:

What is the answer to this question?

What is the answer to what is the answer to this question?

If you know the answer, you may want to read WV Quine's book on paradoxes. And there is a web site "The Man Who Wrote The Man Who Wrote Danny Boy", or there used to be.

Right. It would be interesting to watch a movie about making a movie about movie-making. The next step would probably be too complicated to work in practice. Infinite regress is a myth, it doesn't exist.

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23 Nov 2012, 3:03 am

Krabo wrote:

Quite literally,

What is the answer to this question?

The answer to this question is that it has no answer.

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23 Nov 2012, 3:07 am

Hohoho, I have heard this question before, "what" is the answer to this question.

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23 Nov 2012, 7:51 am

icyfire4w5 wrote:

Hohoho, I have heard this question before, "what" is the answer to this question.

I didn't intend to present a word play but a serious question. The question is, of course, self-referential and as such it cannot have a real answer. However, MotoScooby's suggestion above being a self-referential reply, comes close to one.

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23 Nov 2012, 7:54 am

Lintar wrote:

The answer to this question is that it has no answer.

If so, what is it that you just typed? Is it a separate statement, having nothing to do with the question?

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