Re: For atheists only - do you believe in a soul?
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It could mean the question is ambiguous, so you are not sure exactly what is being asked.
So the doubt is as to what question you are bing asked, not in your answer to a specific question.
[/ QUOTE ] thanks, piers. I was drifting toward that conclusion from your previous comment. You can see the issue with 'maybe' is that it can't be clear what the response means - so if a person gets 10 maybe replies do they mean -
- "I'm not 100% certain it is true."
- "I don't think it's knowable."
- "I don't have a clue what you're talking about". etc.
The Yes/No answers don't suffer from that ambiguity.
thanks everyone for the help, at least I'm comforted that I wasn't missing something obvious ( which I'm quite capable of doing). luckyme
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