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  2. Best of all possible worlds - Wikipedia

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    Well, he conceives God in the creation of the world like a mathematician who is solving a minimum problem, or rather, in our modern phraseology, a problem in the calculus of variations – the question being to determine among an infinite number of possible worlds, that for which the sum of necessary evil is a minimum.

  3. Open-ended question - Wikipedia

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    This grammatically closed but cognitively open style of questioning, Worley argues, "gives [educators] the best of both worlds: the focus and specificity of a closed question (this, after all, is why teachers use them) and the inviting, elaborating character of an open question". [3] Closed questions, simply require 'opening up' strategies to ...

  4. The Hardest Logic Puzzle Ever - Wikipedia

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    Boolos provides the following clarifications: [1] a single god may be asked more than one question, questions are permitted to depend on the answers to earlier questions, and the nature of Random's response should be thought of as depending on the flip of a fair coin hidden in his brain: if the coin comes down heads, he speaks truly; if tails ...

  5. Double-barreled question - Wikipedia

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    An example in practice has been cited in the case of Weise v. Rainville (1959) 173 CA2d 496, 506, where the objection to such a question was sustained because such a question "raises the danger that the witness does not intend to reply to both questions" when answering "yes" to the compound question. [10]

  6. Monty Hall problem - Wikipedia

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    The answer to the first question is ⁠ 2 / 3 ⁠, as is shown correctly by the "simple" solutions. But the answer to the second question is now different: the conditional probability the car is behind door 1 or door 2 given the host has opened door 3 (the door on the right) is ⁠ 1 / 2 ⁠.

  7. 65 "Who Knows Me Better" Questions to Ask Your Nearest and ...

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    Behold: a comprehensive list of 66 questions to ask your friends and family about you, ranging from light and easy, to deep, to maybe even a little embarrassing (in a good way, promise). Let the ...

  8. Display and referential questions - Wikipedia

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    [3] [4] Display questions bear similarities to closed questions in terms of their requirement for short and limited answers and they can be classified under convergent questions. On the other hand, referential questions and open questions are similar in their requirement for long, often varied, answers, and can be grouped under divergent questions.

  9. The Best of Both Worlds ( Star Trek: The Next Generation )

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    Both sets have a Dolby Digital 5.1 audio track for "Best of Both Worlds". [ 16 ] The two episodes, prepped for Blu-ray optical video disc release and to promote the release of the third season Blu-ray, were combined with interviews and outtakes and shown as a one-night only event in movie theaters across the US and Canada on the night of April ...