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If you are posed a question that does not have a yes or no answer, is it necessarily dishonest to answer with a yes?

Secondly, is an honest person strictly limited to telling the truth. I consider myself a generally honest person, but that does not mean I never have told a lie.

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If you are an honest person, what is one question you cannot answer with a "Yes" ?

FYI, please post something with a HARDER answer.

do you tell lies? Then you would answer no. Pretty much any question that is answered with a no would work in this case.

However, I realize that I might not understand your concept here. Please let me know if I am missing something. Otherwise, this is no riddle.

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FYI, please post something with a HARDER answer.

do you tell lies? Then you would answer no. Pretty much any question that is answered with a no would work in this case.

However, I realize that I might not understand your concept here. Please let me know if I am missing something. Otherwise, this is no riddle.

Hi mr _thinker... (may I call you 'the ' :))? welcome to the Den! What tends to happen is that questions that don't 'grab you' after a while get a) forgotten b) ignored. This one is a couple of years old and the person who set it is probably long gone. Don't let that deter you....have a look at the more recent puzzles. There are some brilliant question setters in here.

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If you are an honest person, what is one question you cannot answer with a "Yes" ?

This one.

Although, technically, being honest doesn't mean that you cannot say the wrong answer unintentionally, or make up a stupid answer without the intention of properly answering the question.

Those are my simple and more tricky understandings, which are both right, I hope :)

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First of all, I would like to point out the double negative. Now enjoy your possible question.

"Could you survive death?"

Technically, it is not impossible for a 100% honest person to lie. They would no longer be 100% honest, but they would be before they answered the question. Therefore an honest person could answer "yes" to any question. But then again, I would say that it is impossible for any "human" to be 100% honest.

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