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Been there, tried to do that (Score:2)
Seems to most commonly be mistaken by asian-language speakers... perhaps the concepts overlap more completely in asian languages.
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Doubt means a deliberate suspension of judgement? (Score:1)
Question, can you provide me with a sentence in which the word doubt means that you are suspending judgement? By this I do not mean a sentence with doubt in it that shows that you are suspending judgement. That's easy, "We chose to continue despite our doubts." I mean a sentence where doubt clearly has that meaning.
Thanks,
Ben
Doubt and Decision-Making (Score:1)
I doubt the helpfulness of comparing "question" and "doubt" directly. ;^) Most dictionaries assign several shades of meaning to these terms, but here are two from WordNet that are similar to yours, but show more clearly what I mean:
a sentence of inquiry that asks for a reply
the state of being unsure of something
You seem to be objecting to assumptions about the state of mind behind a question. While a question certainly can be motivated by doubt arising from unfriendly distru
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My motivation for this post is my experience with English speakers of Indian extraction using these terms interchangeably; I've never seen it with other ethnicities, Asian or otherwise. This is entirely a nitpicky post, and I have no illusions that it will affect anyone's decision to speak English more clearly.
In my own parlance, a question is a statement used to elicit information from someone: I asked her a questio