Questions

I keep six honest serving-men
(They taught me all I knew);
Their names are What and Why and When
And How and Where and Who.

These are the first lines of a poem by Rudyard Kipling. Which let me start to think about questions.

Questions arise when there is unclarity, ambiguity or uncertainty about a topic or situation. A question can point to edge cases that have no clear answers, to areas with insufficient detail or conflicting evidence. It can hint at consequences that haven’t been considered. It can open up new possibilities. It can explore different hypotheses. It can make you think or reconsider. It can lead. It can presuppose. It can be rhetorical. It can be open or closed. It is on familiar terms with who, what, where, when, how and why. It can be a precision instrument or a blunt tool.