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? asked in HealthMental Health · 10 years ago

Can anyone understand this concept?

i have explained this to friends many times- and i want to see if i do have a point.

Okay, people say ''anything is possible'', yes?

So therefore the concept, or idea of, ''impossible'' doesnt exist,

so therefore, it would be impossible to do anything impossible.

so when people say that 'anything is possible'' they lie.

Am i right?

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  • 10 years ago
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    No. You are speaking in absolutes. These phrases that you are speaking of are euphemisms and not to be taken literally in all cases. It is easy to say, "Anything is possible" when referring to an upcoming football game where one team is heavily favored against the other. However, that statement cannot be applied to someone jumping off of a 1500 ft cliff into lava at the bottom and saying that they will survive. Impossible does exist, and there are plenty of math equations that would agree. I think you are playing with semantics here, but it still holds little ground no matter how you slice the pie.

  • Anonymous
    10 years ago

    No, that does not work.

    You are saying that it is impossible to do anything impossible even tho you say that the idea of impossible does not exist. If impossible does not exist as you say in the thrid line, you cannot use the fourth line.

    But if the idea of impossible is not right, then all you would be left with is the possilbe. 'Anything is possible?'' can never be proved true as it things are not possible at the moment although maybe next week or year, therefore anything you wrote after this statement following this logic must also be false

  • Anonymous
    10 years ago

    Incorrect. When someone says the phrase 'anything is possible', they mean within normality's constraints. They may say 'anything is possible' when you like a girl but it appears that the girl doesn't like you. They wouldn't say in if you had a strange desire to sprout wings and fly to Peru because that's completely impossible. Therefore, impossible still remains viable and so the phrase 'anything is possible' still withstands within the possibilities of reality.

  • 10 years ago

    you woulda liked the debate me and my friend had on proof of "god" and trees falling in the woods...

    anyways like ZOD777 said its euphemisms

    its like how people say "a glass half full..." being about perspective, and pessimism

    its not

    half full means you only filled it halfway

    half empty means you drank some already :P

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  • Anonymous
    10 years ago

    anything is possible.anything does not mean that it should have concept.

    means impossible is also possible.

    so it is possible to do anything impossible.

    am i right?

  • 10 years ago

    your sentence does not make sense at all.

    why are you trying to put that like a maths equation?

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