Glass half full or half empty? Another false dichotomy! It's obviously both. And half-empty doesn't necessarily imply negative thinking! Suppose you want your child to drink her milk and you note that the glass is now half empty - that is being positive about the child's accomplishment! To say that the glass is half full would be negative. The point, again, is to refer to specific situations rather than to debate abstractly and aimlessly.
I think this is missing the important point that the glass isn't full of milk. That's horse semen
Lol! The realist
You drank that as a kid?
No wonder you left the glass half-full!
Hey, where I grew up you couldn't just leave a glass without finishing it. We were always told to drink our semen because there were starving kids in other countries so we shouldn't let it go to waste
Nonsense.
The glass is always full. Liquid in the lower part, air in the remaining top part. Ask any engineer.
I always see just a glass of water, and then I ask may I drink it?
I then get told I'm not taking my sessions seriously....
It's always full regardless the amount of fluid seen.
Nothing doesn't exist.?
No grasshopper, existence is nothing.
ah, but paddiwon.....hit your hand as hard as you can with a hammer....
Tell me it's nothing.
It is all subjective. It depends on your point of view. Both opposites are true at the same time.
you glass is always full or it would be a vacuum
But if a Hoover was full would it be a glass?
@GregGasiorowski lol
Neither....the glass is twice as big as it needs to be.
The pessimist says the glass is half empty
The optimist says the glass is half full
The engineer says the glass is twice as big as it needs to be
The physicist says, the glass isn’t there
The Nihilist says, you can easily get a smaller glass
I say—"It’s a double… bottom’s up!”
To me it's always been; the glass is half empty if you're draining it or; half full if you're adding to it.
If you're discussing liquid in a container, you're not discussing the philosophy behind the question. You are criticizing philosophy without understanding it.
The Philosophy erroneously assumes that a statement about the liquid indicates a certain type of attitude.
@Krish55 You are criticizing philosophy without understanding it.
The statement has as much to do with liquid as the tree falling in the forest has to do with sound waves.
You haven't yet disproved my critique. Nor have I discarded "Philosphy," but merely aimless, ungrounded theorizing.
I have actually, which is why I added that you do not understand.the philosophy you are criticizing. You're an armchair quarterback during Monday night football yelling at your television except they at least follow the topic.
You literally cannot discuss the philosophical aspects of the glass or the liquid, by discussing the physical aspect of the glass or the liquid.
Since you are so enamored of Philosophy, it would be appropriate to discuss the issue at hand rather than make personal comments. Please explain your last paragraph.
@Krish55 I honestly cannot explain it any further which is the frustrating problem. I'm not enamored by philosophy but the 101 version is pretty clear that the statement in question has NOTHING TO DO WITH THE PHYSICAL GLASS OR THE WATER! Go find a philosophy professor if you're actually interested in learning instead of criticizing without educating yourself first.
I've always thought this glass half full analogy to be ridiculous. Thanks for calling it out.
It could be half empty or half full, but it’s more likely that’s its 6/7 empty.?
People who se the glass as half full lack foresight and the willingness to accept inevitable consequences.
It isn't meant to make much sense in literal terms. It's a metaphor for optimism and pessimism. Trying to see the positive or insisting on focusing on the negative. It's valuing what you have left rather than lamenting over what you've lost. A 'glass half full' person gets half way through a holiday and still enjoys the rest if it. A 'glass half empty' person spends the remaining days brooding about going back to work.
Technically it is a trick question. The question is a matter of physics. The glass is full at all times with the particles that make up water and the particles that make up air. The question is thought to be one of the psychological interpretation to show ones pessimism or optimism.
An optimist says the glass is half-full. A pessimist says the glass is half-empty. An engineer says the glass is twice a big as it needs to be.