Contingent questions are unanswerable without more information provided by the questioner. The interesting thing is that in my 3 other examples, the contingent nature of the question would generally ...

Contingent questions are unanswerable without more information provided by the questioner. The interesting thing is that in my three other examples, the contingent nature of the question would ...

This question was posed to me recently through Quora, the question and answer website. I did not answer it there because an adequate answer in the short space that Quora likes was impossible. But it ...