"Unanswerable questions" refers to queries or inquiries that cannot be sufficiently or definitively answered due to various reasons such as a lack of information, complexity, or philosophical nature. These kinds of questions often leave people puzzled as there is no clear or certain response to them.
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Essence of the Orb identifies that man is faced
with unanswerable questions concerning the metaphysical, the transcendental and the existential and this exhibition embraces those artists who have attempted to capture the complexity of the unknown.
Dan Flavin's fluorescent sculptures resist corporeal definition: a piece's intangible glow undercuts its own object - hood,
posing unanswerable questions of where the work begins and ends.
It's these puzzling moments that raise thought - provoking but potentially
unanswerable questions in the mind of the viewer, and transform the experience, as a whole, into a difficult one to shake.
We should cease to ask
unanswerable questions about the meaning or goal of life and concentrate attention upon questions whose answers can be found by scholarly research.
Duchampians will enjoy the Greatest Hits (to which are added a life - sized painted wooden sculpture of the Babitz - Duchamp game), and the show celebrates Duchamp's influential legacy even if it
raises unanswerable questions.
But it is important to distinguish between constructive systems of thought which involve assumptions that allow one to increase one's understanding of the world and his situation in it, versus assumptions which simply lead to
more unanswerable questions.
She explores, along with the reader, the
perhaps unanswerable questions of who has the power to forgive — and are there some acts which are simply unforgiveable?»
Unfortunately, many people seem to have a problem accepting that they shouldn't persecute others based on their subjective answer to an
objectively unanswerable question.
The circular story immediately backtracks to observe Walter, who is on the verge of retirement after 34 years, addressing a class and posing the
same unanswerable questions he has been pondering out loud for more than three decades.
Her book is meant to dispel this impression, and to «actively explore the paradoxes and possibilities inherent in the vast and varied universe of faith - belief - meaning - mystery - existence» as well as to «
explore unanswerable questions with an open mind instead of approaching them with dismissive derision or with the solemn piety of timid steps and bowed head.»
That is one of the challenging and
possibly unanswerable questions that loving and conscientious cat owners must ponder when their veterinarian suggests that they might want to consider euthanasia.
These might be thought of
as unanswerable questions, but by looking at key historical figures and exploring the private world of abstract artists today, Collings shows that there are, in fact, answers.
Athier Mousawi (b. 1982) is a British Iraqi visual artist whose work over recent years has centred on posing
unanswerable questions against undefined answers and forming a visual narrative between the two.
The first, and
probably unanswerable question is How much will human industrial activities actually raise the concentration of carbon dioxide etc. in the air in the future?
There are experiments in using stock market — like systems, in which people bet on ideas to answer
seemingly unanswerable questions, like when terrorist events will occur or when stem cell therapy will allow a person to grow new teeth.
There's a certain titillation in seeing big names that get tossed around so much: James Turrel's experimentation with light - as - medium, Joseph Kosuth's neon lights
asking unanswerable questions — the legendary Art as Idea as Idea echoing in the empty space that surrounds his pieces.
The game hands you little nibbles of story at fairly regular intervals so you're not starving for answers, but like any Team ICO game, the plot isn't exceptionally complex (although it is full of open questions even at the end of the game), so over-explaining would only lead to
more unanswerable questions.
This provocative,
perhaps unanswerable question is worth asking for what it reveals about a cultural arena in which money and fame often seem to be the paramount obsessions.
Whether it's legit or manufactured, it is pure brilliance, adjusting that eternal,
unanswerable question of what constitutes art into the one that actually matters: Is it good art?
It's
an unanswerable question with all buybacks,» says Jack Ciesielski, author of the Analysts» Accounting Observer.
In stead of trying to take the easy way or asking
yourself unanswerable questions like how many more links you need, you're better of using solid, proven techniques.
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Very interesting fairy tale like the rest of Christianity in particular and religion in general providing answers for
the unanswerable question of life after death.
It is no longer possible for us to ignore modern cosmology and the many new and seemingly
unanswerable questions it has raised.
So go beat your head against the wall if you feel the need to bring up
the unanswerable question again.
He just thinks he's posed
the unanswerable question.
One of these is the mother's feeling toward God, expressed by the dramatic,
unanswerable question: Why?
It's
an unanswerable question but one I struggle with just the same.