Is the Glass Half Empty or Half Full?

[Aragorn1]

Originally posted by Hivetyrant: Bah, its half full, it cant be half-empty...you cant have half of nothing.....

If you have half of something, you must have half of something else for it to be whole, in this case nothing, or something which is, to use mathematical terms, undefined.

[armageddon272]

Originally posted by Aragorn1: Half-full: last change of volume was an increase, i.e. was being filled, but not completed Half-empty: last change of volume was a decrease, i.e. it was being emptied, but was not emptied fully, therefore half empty.

^ What he said pretty much sums up what I was thinking.

[Gxc]

Depends on my mood.

[Hivetyrant]

Originally posted by CerebroDragon: To counter Hivetyrant: Although it may sound illogical, it all depends on how you read it. Half-empty does not imply (at least to me) that you have half of nothing, but rather that half of something is gone, and hence that the other half remains.

lol, i completely understand, but that's how I used to see it, and thats the story I stick with as I couldn't be bothered figuring out another theory [img]tongue.gif[/img]