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after experimenting for a while, I now prefer "for what purpose?" instead of "why?". "why?" easily leads to cycles and going back down the abstraction hierarch
by localhostdotdev 7y ago
after experimenting for a while, I now prefer "for what purpose?" instead of "why?".
"why?" easily leads to cycles and going back down the abstraction hierarchy, where "for what purpose?" always goes up the abstraction ladder.
- why are you eating? because it's 7pm
- for what purpose are you eating? to satisfy my hunger
- icebraining 7y agoFor what purpose only works if there is a purpose. "For what purpose are you hungry" doesn't really work.
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- fwip 7y agoYou can probably make up reasons. "To induce me to ingest nutrients" "To provide me with energy" "To fulfill some biological imperative" is one possible route.
- dtech 7y agoThat sounds weird. The starting point of a post-mortem is usually something like "Why was x down?". "For what purpose was x down?" is not the correct question there, it's not like you were purposely bringing it down for maintenance.