Philosophical questions are written as critiques, which may include questioning our ordinary way of seeing things, the certainty of our knowledge, what exists, our morality, etc. A lot of these are undertaken to expose the error of our habits and to point out our naïveté in what we take for granted as real and true.How can we distinguish philosophical question from other types of questions? What are the distinctive features of a philosophical question? — Pacem
Just gotta point out this question is on its own a philosophical question :razz: — dilatoriness
I only stated that it cannot be answered by referring to empirical evidence, experiment, math or logic. If the question can be answered by such tactics, then the question is either an empirical one, like involving history, or a scientific one, which can be addressed by science, or a math problem or a problem in logic. — LD Saunders
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