As Kant interprets the situation, Newton "abstracts from all hypotheses purporting to answer the question as to the cause of the universal attraction of matter … [since] this question is physical or metaphysical, but not mathematical" (4:515).
"I don't think it's a spam problem as much as it is that you have a lot more low quality content, that's not necessarily spam and that's kind of purporting to answer a question and that kind of gives you the answer.
Aquinas's Summa theologiae (1265/66 1273) purports to answer all the major questions of existence, including those of political philosophy.
He said: "[The letter] does not even address the question that it purports to answer: whether the currency union is in the interests of the UK, if Scotland voted for independence.
Then there's the teasingly titled "I Love/I Hate…Cocktails," which purports to answer the question "Has the reflection and discussion over what makes a really Great Drink begun to overshadow the actual enjoyment of any Great Drink?" New this year will a series of six hands-on seminars that teach attendees how to make their own homemade vermouth and bitters, among other potions.
Work on category differences, unlike that on category systems, does not generally purport to answer deep metaphysical questions about what things or kinds of things exist; instead, category differences are articulated as a way of diagnosing and avoiding various philosophical problems and confusions.
The Accountability Review Board also purports to answer a question that, until now, no other inquiry has been able to tackle: how, exactly, staff came to possess the Panetta Review, an internal CIA document that supposedly undercuts the agency's official response to the torture study.
So, at first, I was not that enthusiastic to hear about a new $39.95 device called the Qoder (pronounced CO-der), a gray plastic disc small enough to hang on a key chain that purports to answers all the questions that keep me from buying.
It was instigated by a blind gossip column item purporting to respond to a 16-word answer by Mets Manager Bobby Valentine ("Probably. The players are a diverse enough group now that I think they could handle it").
It helps, when reading "Dark Back of Time," to have some curiosity about the man behind the novels, and in the course of reading Marías's other work you will have accumulated numerous questions that this book purports to answer.
During that brief window, false information may in fact be easier to exploit — it shows up just in time, and purports to answer the questions on everyone's mind.
