The Importance Of A Neutral Question

Humans can boast about the vast realm of knowledge that they have access to. With the increased use of the internet, knowledge is at our fingertips. But as hectic days take its course, one might forget to ask, how was all this knowledge ever acquired? The answer is simple: Through questions like these. Questioning is key to the idea of gaining new knowledge, and often can be looked at as the point where acquisition begins. According to the Oxford Dictionary, a Question is defined as, “A sentence worded or expressed so as to elicit information” and Neutral is defined as, “Impartial”. Working with these very broad definitions, I shall define a neutral question as one that does not have a desired answer to it. A non-neutral question would then …show more content…
Thus, in accordance to the loose definitions presented above, bias is the basis of a non-neutral question. If someone asks, “Could you give me your views on this topic?” my answer to this question will be invariably differ from yours. Or will it? The knowledge question for this essay is, “is there a way to decontexualise knowledge to come up with neutral questions?” and it aims to explore the possibility of forming neutral questions by decontextualizing knowledge. Decontextualizing simply means to get rid of any type of bias attached to something, in order to come up with an absolute. When looking into arts, it is easy come to a conclusion that it may be very difficult to ask neutral questions in this field as judgments that can be made in this field are highly individualistic, while in Mathematics, the opposite might seem to be true because the use of reason and logic demands one sole answer which restricts fluidity in judgment. In this essay, I am going to delve deeper into the topic to explore the possibility and the extent of neutrality of the questions in the very different Areas of Knowledge of, Math and the …show more content…
Its primary aim is to stimulate the senses of its audience and evoke this sense of pleasure from them. Consequently, everyone in this world cannot view Art through the same lens. The experience is highly unconstrained; different people feel differently when exposed to the arts. Here, the way of knowing of emotion plays a huge part on deciding which senses are stimulated and judgments made as emotional responses of the audience is what tends to motivate people to make their judgments on art. A common example would be to ask, “Why do people like Pablo Picasso?” Picasso’s paintings tend to stimulate the senses of people in different ways and are engineered to carter to certain audiences only. Some people like it, others don’t, but neither can say either of them is right because the individual perceptions cannot fully be justified through reason. Thus, one cannot predict someone’s reaction to the arts before they are fully exposed to it and the extent to which they are moved by the piece, as questions regarding the effects of the arts do not have a universal