Why Consider Counterarguments In Critical Thinking? A. It Fills Your Word Count B. It Confuses Your Main Point C. It Is Required By Law D. It Strengthens Your Argument By Addressing Other Viewpoints

Today "why" is used as a question word to ask the reason or purpose of something. I am always suspicious of "reason (s)" and "why" being next to each other. Nov 27, 2018why is a just a rather odd wh -word.

Its distribution is very limited -- it can only have the word reason as its antecedent, and since it's never the subject it's always deletable. Googling 'for why' (in quotes) i discovered that there was a single word 'forwhy' in middle english. Jan 16, 2011why have a letter in a word when it’s silent in pronunciation, like the b in debt?