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WWU philosophy professor writes second-shortest article

What's in a question?

Dennis Whitcomb sitting in front of shelves of books.
Dennis Whitcomb is a philosophy professor at Western Washington University and co-wrote one of the shortest philosophy articles ever published. (Hailey Hoffman/Cascadia Daily News)
By Hailey Hoffman Visual Journalist
For months, Western Washington University philosophy Professor Dennis Whitcomb worked with co-authors Joshua Habgood-Coote and Lani Watson to develop their latest article: "Can a good philosophical contribution be made just by asking a question?" So what followed the title? Nothing ... but a blank empty page.  The rest of the article lives within the minds of readers as they think and mentally respond to the question presented. "We think of this paper as a kind of co

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