No, this is a pronoun.
No, this is Patrick!
Why yes, yes it is.
But please be aware that your mileage may vary. What is true for one person may not be true for another.
Hope that helps. ;)
Is it?
The metacognition it requires confounds lots of people.
What makes a question “stupid”?You can tell because of the way it is.
What can I tell because of the way it is?
Yes.
True enough.
I can tell the word “Yes” because of its spelling.
But nobody was talking about “yes”, so that seems a non sequitur.
No. Self-references are interesting from a philosophical standpoint, and are often the cause of apparent paradoxes in logic.
“Is this a stupid question?” is an example of self-reference and can thus lead into exploration of the topic if only as a way to avoid any difficulties its apparent lack of information otherwise presents.
… which is what I’m doing in this comment.
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I’ve been asking people that for years.
Still haven’t gotten a good answer.If you define a stupid question as one where discussion is difficult or even impossible, then no, this is not a stupid question. Questions are meant to provoke debate and communication of differing ideas, and this is exactly what is happening now.
A true stupid question would be like asking if guns can kill people. Of course guns kill people, there is no discussion about this. A better question could be how we should regulate guns and ways to avoid placing them in the wrong hands.
