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"Is the glass half-full, or half-empty?"

DonZabuDonZabu
edited 2011-09-29 06:41:11 in Philosophy
If you're filling an empty glass with water up to the half-way point, then it's half-full.

If you're emptying a full glass of water down to the half-way point, then it's half-empty.

Now where's my philosophy medal?
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Comments

  • HatterHatter
    Glaives are better.
    Practicality is poison to philosophy.
  • BobBob
    It's already been given to the billions of other people who said that same thing decades ago. Sorry. :C
  • MoeDantesMoeDantes
    no longer cuddly, but still Edmond
    I always thought "I dunno, but this question sure is half-stupid."
  • DonZabuDonZabu
    edited 2011-08-17 01:38:19
    ^ Or is it half-smart?


    ^^ So billions of people all share the same medal at once? I hope they all wash their hands before touching it.
  • BobBob
    What if a wizard conjures a glass with water in it at the half-way point out of thin air?
  • DonZabuDonZabu
    edited 2011-08-17 01:43:52
    I'd say "There is a measure of water in this glass that is half the capacity of the glass that contains it." And then I'd drink it, because I'm thirsty.
  • MadassAlexMadassAlex
    edited 2011-08-17 01:42:21
    One foot in front of the other, every day.
    Then the glass contains a volume of water equal to half its maximum capacity.

    Ninja'd.
  • BobBob
    What if the water gains sentience, invulnerability, super-strength and a supernatural ability to be impossible to drink or otherwise do away with or contain by any means and attacks you?
  • DarkDecapodianDarkDecapodian
    edited 2011-08-17 01:45:35
    Clean your room little Billy

    A wizard has turned you into a glass containing half it's volume in water. Is this awesome Y/N?

  • DonZabuDonZabu
    edited 2011-08-17 01:46:39
    ^ I don't think I'd be in any position to answer that question. Because I'd be a fucking glass of water.

    ^^ I'd lament that I shouldn't have taken those pills the ice cream man gave me.
  • BobBob
    edited 2011-08-17 01:56:24
    What if the pills were really a cluster of parasitic alien babies that spent their entire lives and by extension your entire life draining the nutrients from your body and whatnot, killing you horrible after keeping you alive for so many long decades, forcing you to suffer immensely?
  • WaltzyWaltzy
    I think the glass is twice as big as it needs to be.
  • MalkavianMalkavian
    MORONS! I'VE GOT MORONS ON MY PAYROLL!
    I think Imma fill the rest of the glass with vodka.
  • MadassAlexMadassAlex
    One foot in front of the other, every day.
    ^^ Engineer's answer. :D
  • inkblotinkblot
    edited 2011-08-17 17:25:36
    000
    ignore
  • SaigyoujiSaigyouji
    But you never had any to begin with.
    The water is poisoned.
  • WaltzyWaltzy
    The water's gonna evaporate if you don't hurry and drink it already.
  • The_EdgeThe_Edge
    Mr. The Edge goes to Washington
    Why does it have to be water? Why not beer, juice, soda, cola, a melted popsicle, or a milkshake?
  • SaigyoujiSaigyouji
    But you never had any to begin with.
    Who fills glasses with melted popsicles?
  • ClockworkUniverseClockworkUniverse
    OOOooooOoOoOOoo, I'm a ghoOooOooOOOost!
    IJBM: I just noticed the typo in the title, and now I can't unsee it.
  • The_EdgeThe_Edge
    Mr. The Edge goes to Washington
    ^^I do not. I would like to know if anyone does that though.
  • RedEyedAbyssRedEyedAbyss
    My favourite answer is that it's full. The other half is air.
  • inkblotinkblot
    000
    Does anyone even know if how you answer this question is correlated to your optimism?
  • nohaynicklibrenohaynicklibre
    Kichigai birthday!!
    @ INUH

    You're of mod. You can into edit
  • RedEyedAbyssRedEyedAbyss
    ^^Given the track record for these kinds of tests, it's likely pseudoscience disguised as legitimate psychology.
  • RocketDudeRocketDude
    edited 2011-08-17 21:53:19
    Poot dispenser here
    • Pessimist: The glass is half-empty.
    • Optimist: The glass is half-full.
    • Engineer: The glass is twice as large as it needs to be.
    • Ecologist: The glass would be completely full if not for global warming.
    • Accountant: Do you really need all that water?
    • Quantum physicist: Within the glass there is a 50% chance of encountering water.
    • Capitalist: Supplies are limited, order your water now!
    • Communist: Water rations are halved this year, comrade.
    • Surrealist: The cow is half banana.
    • Nihilist: What glass?
    • Nuclear physicist: If we knew when the glass was completely full, or
      we wait for the glass to be a quarter full, we can measure the
      half-life of water.
    • Astrophysicist: Within half of the observable glass, there are
      billions and billions of water molecules affected by a gravitational
      incline.
    • Gamer: This is just enough to get me to the well just beyond blue base.  I'll refill there and get the flag on the way back.
    • Analytical chemist: There is a liquid-phase mixture of hydrogen and
      oxygen in a two-to-one molar ratio, covalently bonded; a gas mixture of
      78% diatomic nitrogen, 21% diatomic oxygen, and 1% other gases; confined
      within an open mouthed container of an amorphous silicate solid.
    • Mythbuster: Water in the glass, FIRE IN THE HOLE!
    • Nutritionist: You need sixteen of these a day.
    • Physician: Only half of this should be given intravenously, and only after adding 5% glucose by mass.
    • Computer scientist: It has to be either full or empty, unless we're using a quantum computer!
    • Theoretical physicist: You fool!  You altered the quantity of water in the glass by observing it!
    • Plasma physicist: Whoops, the water just evaporated.
    • Survivalist: Come near what's left of my water and I'll blow your head off.
    • Pragmatist: Just let me drink the damn water already!
    (Copied from here.)
  • Central AvenueCentral Avenue

    IJBM: I just noticed the typo in the title, and now I can't unsee it.
    FUCK YOU
    CAN'T UNSEE
  • Naas_HumanNaas_Human
    ^Was he hoping for it to be half-full of something like "beer, juice, soda, cola, a melted popsicle, or a milkshake"?
  • AHRAHR
    There's water in that glass!
  • KinkajouKinkajou
    Kamen Rider MADOKA
    The statement in the OP implies it is water that is the liquid, but why can't it be another?
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