Is a question--unquestionably--a question?
YES?
Here again we are concerned with absolutes, or the
question of absolutes. Is a question something with the
quality of questioning, in which case it is absolutely
questionable--even as to whether it is a question--or is a
question a dead term used to describe something that
isn't exactly real--a tool that only points at the moon?
The question then becomes, are all things true? or what
is that thing at which the finger points? The one uses
qualities but is lacking in literal truth, the second uses
literal truth and is distinctly lacking in qualities!
Are we talking about questions of ultimate meaning?
In that case unless its meaning consists of its
puzzlement, there ought to be a way in which it is
questionably a question, a way in which it can be
understood so that meaning can be derived.
Are we talking about doubt itself? Practically, doubt
doesn't do much good except to prevent--sometimes
just temporarily--harmful actions. So doubt shouldn't
be considered as an unquestionable question, unless it
is a tool to preventing something that we must not
allow to happen to ourselves. Doubt should be
reasonable.
So a question is only unquestionably a question when it
has meaning (be it profound meaning or no). The trick
is finding a question that still has meaning when it has
been solved.
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