Timeline for How to answer when the question is based on a wrong premise?
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| Jun 25, 2018 at 17:17 | history | edited | Jason Arthur Taylor | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
added sentence about jeff atwood
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| Jun 24, 2018 at 22:03 | history | edited | Jason Arthur Taylor | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Jun 24, 2018 at 20:52 | history | edited | Jason Arthur Taylor | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
clarified diff between #1 and #4
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| Jun 24, 2018 at 20:32 | comment | added | Jason Arthur Taylor | I disagree with your and AccidentalFourierTransform's beliefs that questions with issues often "cannot really be answered." I think answerers can almost always make good guesses as what is likely an intended question or issue. I called this option #4 in my edited version and option #1 in my first submitted draft. My answer argues that this is wrong path to take unless an appropriate portion of the answer fully justifies the fixing. In other words, the issues should not be glossed over and I am agreeing with your view. | |
| Jun 24, 2018 at 20:22 | history | edited | Jason Arthur Taylor | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
added boldening of latter part of q
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| Jun 24, 2018 at 20:17 | comment | added | Jason Arthur Taylor | Thanks for pointing out that I misunderstood your #1 option. Please review my edited answer. | |
| Jun 24, 2018 at 20:15 | history | edited | Jason Arthur Taylor | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
I included a new option #4 to what I originally thought was #1. added period.
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| Jun 24, 2018 at 19:20 | comment | added | Javier | This answer says a lot of very important things but I don't know how relevant it is to a question and answer site like this. Maybe this wasn't clear in what I wrote, but to me "answer the question" means to correct the error, even if that technically doesn't answer what was asked (since the question cannot really be answered). One can't write a full fledged introduction to general relativity in an answer; sometimes "here's why your premise is flawed" is the best you can do. | |
| Jun 24, 2018 at 19:18 | history | edited | Jason Arthur Taylor | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
fixing options of q vs. alternatives
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| Jun 24, 2018 at 19:08 | history | answered | Jason Arthur Taylor | CC BY-SA 4.0 |