By Schubert Ogden
To ask the existential question is to presuppose that there is an answer to it, if only an implicit answer.
But it is also to seek, or to be on the lookout for, an explicit answer to the question -- andquestion—and, eventually, to seek for the decisive answer, which would enable one oneself and others to decide between the conflicting claims and counterclaims to answer it explicitly represented by the various religions and philosophies.
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