The Four Logical States

(1) True
(0) False
(-1) Wrong Question
(-2) Insufficient information


The idea here is that asked a direct question, a person should be able to give a Yes/No answer. What I have found is that when (most) people ask for a binary answer, they are engaged in a misdirection. There needs to be a way to tell the questioner that they are involved in a straw man argument: that the question is invalid.

Assuming the asker is asking the right question, I often will still not give an answer because there is no mechanism by which to get sufficient information.

For example:
Q: Is there life after death?
A: It's impossible to say, since we don't have clear communication across the boundary.

Q. "Will the project finish on time?"
A. "It's impossible to say, sir, because in order to speed things up, you had everybody stop tracking their progress"