Yet another question to make one think!
2007-01-21 05:33:30 · 9 answers · asked by Cronus 3 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
"Anything is possible" is equivalent to :
"Nothing is impossible"
Which both entail
"It is not possible for something to be impossible"
Which is absurd.
The only way to reconcile modality, and your consequence that "it's possible for something to be impossible," (which makes sense) is to refute the premise. Otherwise you've introduced a contradiction, and from a contradiction everything follows deductively... which is absurd if you want to make any sense.
Strictly it follows, but only because contradictions prove everything, and therefore show nothing. It's valid but not sound.
2007-01-21 05:48:39 · answer #1 · answered by -.- 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes . . .
Being possible does not make it a reality now .
Possible is about the future . . .
Impossible may be the present state, but an advancement of knowledge make alter the reality & it becomes doable,
Like air flight or building the international space station.
These were impossible in 1800 but possible was the future and NOW, they be happening !
And ? - Whose bod are you flashing for the avatar ?
Gerard Butler ?
2007-01-21 05:44:36 · answer #2 · answered by kate 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Of course, but it wouldn't be focused upon, because one is believing in the possibilities, not the possible impossibilities. It's about optimism. Hope perhaps. All good things. It's a marvelous way to go about life.
2007-01-21 06:50:19 · answer #3 · answered by Answerer 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, I agree. But you have to quantify that statement further......just how impossible are we talking? Totally impossible? Almost impossible? Or just marginally impossible?
The mathematician Georg Cantor once claimed it was possible to prove almost anything by using the basic assumption that 1 + 1 = 1. When asked to prove that he was God, he stated: "I am one, and God is one. Since 1 +1 = 1, thus I am one, with God; or in other words, God and I are one!"
2007-01-21 05:51:43 · answer #4 · answered by WOMBAT, Manliness Expert 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
everything is possible therefore the impossible is possible. Case in point: I did answer this question.
2007-01-21 06:19:31 · answer #5 · answered by Jody B 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
now youre being impossible
2007-01-21 05:41:28 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Of course it is. Many young people manage it regularly.
2007-01-21 05:42:00 · answer #7 · answered by Tony B 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Ditto : Jody B
It is.
2007-01-21 06:22:34 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
yes. I know many who are.
2007-01-21 05:36:49 · answer #9 · answered by Sophist 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋