@energyismassivelight @toffo @changterhune @sean_ae You have done it: we have arrived!

@toffo @energyismassivelight @changterhune @sean_ae ️ Life just keeps on giving! 🥳

@energyismassivelight @toffo @changterhune @sean_ae Yours is a most welcome refinement. I have accordingly improved, redeemed - patched, if you will - my old software, and supplied more edifying options:

Again: What is a question?

Poll Answer 1: A question is an interrogative speech act through which an epistemic deficiency is constituted as a socially actionable demand for information.

Poll Answer 2: A question is the formalisation of an indeterminacy: it does not merely mark an absence of knowledge, but establishes that absence as something requiring determination.

@toffo @energyismassivelight @changterhune @sean_ae I love that you imagined its true Form, and that both stances were selected. Your choices are noble!

@energyismassivelight @toffo @changterhune @sean_ae But what is a question?

Poll Option 1: A question is an interrogative speech act that establishes a normative relation between speaker and addressee, characteristically soliciting the provision of information or the resolution of an epistemic deficit.

Poll Option 2: A question is the linguistic articulation of an absence within a horizon of possible determination: it presents something not merely as unknown, but as requiring disclosure.

(I couldn’t make a real poll because of the length of these; and a refuse to bow.)