(May 23, 2015 at 5:11 pm)Alex K Wrote:(May 23, 2015 at 5:09 pm)Pyrrho Wrote: I am presently drinking Scotch. Pure, unadulterated Scotch.
I presume you care to tell me which one. (not a question)
If you must know, I am slumming.
Now, I want to ask if you are drinking Scotch. I would not want to think ill of you, so maybe you will tell me what kind of Scotch you are presently drinking. Notice, none of these sentences are questions either.
"A wise man ... proportions his belief to the evidence."
— David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, Section X, Part I.
