Poll: Is Anything Possible?

[Zacharine]

Yes: absolutely anything and everything is possible.

Then let me challenge you to disprove logic or even imagine any possible concept or an object that disproves logic.

Because the only way you can even in theory disprove logic, is by using logic at some stage. Thereby creating a self-referential loop which is not proof of anything. Thereby failing to disprove logic.

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If I were a robot, I'd be dead by now...at the moment though, I just have a minor...sorry, moderate nose-bleed and slowly swelling headache. Anyway, in answer to the challenge of disproving logic; see my side note on probability.

See my previous notes on logic being true regardless of the state of reality, on observer, any possible physical laws etc.

The inference: "anything is possible, merely improbable. Therefore, something that would disprove logic could exist somewhere, at some time" is a statement made with using logic.

Thereby, it does not matter that that disproof would even theoretically be, you cannot connect that evidence or argument to logic without using logic in the process. Thereby deafeating the purpose of the attempted argument.

 

[Shankity Stick]

36 for, 36 against. Wow.

Personally, I think anything is possible.

Since the universe is infinite, everything that has ever been thought must exist somewhere. Provided that the universe actually *is* infinite, which is yet to be proven.

Wrong. There is not, for instance, a purple hippopotamus in my bedroom at this point. It is imaginable, but it is not happening. By specifying where and when things happen (my bedroom, right now), you can put limits on things.

Maybe there IS a purple hippopotamus in your room, you just don't realize it.

 

[Zacharine]

there is no impossible, only varying degrees of improbable

THen let me add you to my challenge here: Disprove logic. Name any argument, hypothetical object etc that would disprove logic.

Because I do not think it possible. See my previous posts for why not, an for an argument for the impossibility of it.

 

[interspark]

im gonna say "yes" cos i know what you mean but, the way you said it, it sounded like you meant "is anything possible" as opposed to everything being impossible, i know some things are possible! lol XD

 

[Shankity Stick]

So, different dimensions, and magic.

That's like asking "If absolutely everything is possible, is anything impossible"

Also, me, in this reality, right now, killing a whale with a sharpened ski. Not happening!
(Yay! A loophole!)

Maybe you are killing a whale with a sharpened ski, you just don't realize it.

 

[Xvito]

There are certain things that are so unlikely to happen that one can safely say they will not happen.

 

[dietpeachsnapple]

The speed at which this dissolves into futility it staggering. If nothing is impossible, and everything is possible, there is no frame of reference to have a conversation at all. I appreciate the Cartesian doubt, but there comes a point where it is an exercise in semantics as opposed to an exercise of dispelling entrenched paradigms.

 

[interspark]

To all you saying yes:

I will stay with "no" until you show me a human who is flying without aid of technology, wings, or jumping out of an airplane.

I mean, that's if you're real technical like me.

flying- to prevent oneself from falling using only ones own power, under that definaition its perfectly prudent to say that astronauts (or anyone for that matter) in zero gravity are flying, there! anythings possible

 

[interspark]

The speed at which this dissolves into futility it staggering. If nothing is impossible, and everything is possible, there is no frame of reference to have a conversation at all. I appreciate the Cartesian doubt, but there comes a point where it is an exercise in semantics as opposed to an exercise of dispelling entrenched paradigms.

i may sound stupid saying this but.. did you chose those words intentionally so that NO-ONE would have the foggiest idea of what youre on about!?

 

[Shankity Stick]

There are certain things that are so unlikely to happen that one can safely say they will not happen.

That doesn't mean that they won't happen, that just means that they are unlikely.

 

[RamirezDoEverything]

It is impossible for me to jump without any enhancements/materials/mechanisms 30,000 feet into the air.

Suck it.

 

[V8 Ninja]

Right now? No. In the future? Possibly.

 

[crudus]

First of all, I'm a guy. Secondly, it depends on how dimensions work. Maybe they are universes where there are alternate versions of people but they are completely different. Or you could believe (as I do) that dimensions are mirror images of each other with one detail changed, altering their existence. The people would still be the same people, just under different circumstances.

First off, I prefer saying "he" or "she" rather than "(s)he" or "he/she". It flows so much better when hearing and looks better when reading. I also prefer saying "she" when gender is irrelevant or unknown (and therefore irrelevant) just because it is different. Taking offense to it is your problem. Moving on: no, you do not want to get into a debate about philosophy with me. It has been proven that people with the same DNA aren't exactly alike even grown up in the exact same environment. Those "different circumstances" are a change in the environment which means that you cannot be the same person because they will react differently to a stimulus whether slightly or differently. Even twins like I described react to things slightly differently and have their own thoughts and emotions.

 

[Not-here-anymore]

So, different dimensions, and magic.

That's like asking "If absolutely everything is possible, is anything impossible"

Also, me, in this reality, right now, killing a whale with a sharpened ski. Not happening!
(Yay! A loophole!)

Maybe you are killing a whale with a sharpened ski, you just don't realize it.

Unlikely; I lost my skis a few months ago in a fairly bad accident.
*looks down*
When did I get a new pair of skis?
And why is one of them stuck in a whale?
More importantly, how the hell did a whale fit into my room?

It's fine, the whale isn't fatally wounded. Thus you are proved wrong!

 

[Socius]

Matter responds to thought so yeah.

 

[Shankity Stick]

Also, read the first post again to disprove RamirezDoEverything's argument.

 

[crudus]

It is impossible for me to jump without any enhancements/materials/mechanisms 30,000 feet into the air.

Suck it.

Ok, we are just going to go to Deimos or some other similarly small planetoid to give it a shot.

Matter responds to thought so yeah.

It could in time or other dimensions.

 

[spartan231490]

it is often said, even in scientific circles, that it is impossible to prove a negative. And that is exactly what it means, you can't prove that something doesnt ever happen somewhere, you can only prove that it is unlikely.

 

[Snipermanic]

In one of my classrooms my English teacher had this quote written, "Impossible is just a big word thrown around by small men who find it easier to live in the world they've been given rather than to explore the power they have change it. Impossible is not a fact. It is a opinion. Impossible is not a declaration it is a dare. Impossible is potential. Impossible is temporary. Impossible is nothing".

Sorry if it's already been posted

P.S. Can anyone tell me who originally said that?

 

[Zacharine]

it is often said, even in scientific circles, that it is impossible to prove a negative. And that is exactly what it means, you can't prove that something doesnt ever happen somewhere, you can only prove that it is unlikely.

If it is impossible to prove a universal negative, then not everything is possible.