Is the glass really half-empty or half-full?
Half-full
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Half-empty
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In my opinion a true optimist would say the glass is always full. In this case half full of water and half full of air. Air being even more important for life than water. So even an empty glass is full just of something you cannot see but have to have to live. Side: Half-full
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"In my opinion a true optimist would say the glass is always full." I disagree. An optimist isn't someone who calls a glass half-empty, an optimist is someone who is fine with having a glass that is half-empty because they know it's still "half-full". I could say, "this glass is a quarter-full" and still be thankful for it. Neither is a measure of optimism, or pessimism. Optimism is what you believe on the inside, not the rhetoric you use on the outside. Side: Half-empty
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You could make the argument that it is either half-empty or half-full based on it's previous state (empty or full). However, since this question is so lame, I'll just say that based on it's original state--which will always have been empty, unless of course you erected a glass underwater--and say that the glass is hafl-full. Side: Half-full
What a stupid question! jk, lol. Was the glass formed full or empty? If it was empty, you would say 1/2 full. The glass began empty, which is so obvious that it shouldn't be mentioned... so, the glass is FILLED, to half full. If the glass was formed already full (which is difficult to imagine), then it would be the opposite. Knowing that it was occupied when it was created would render saying it's half full, when emptied 1/2 way, illogical. It is now half empty, whereas it was just the way it was when created. Catch my drift? Do you say a car is doing 70mph slower than freeway speed if it's parked? No, and why not? Because the cars original state is parked, or 0mph. When you get to highway speed, you say it's moving @ 70mph... I don't know if these are good analogies or explanations... oh boy. Side: Half-full
Don't worry. I get what you are saying, and it was pretty much what I came on to say. If the glass was originally full, then it is now half empty. If it was originally empty, then it is not half full. It doesn't have to be formed that way though; I would say it is simply about the current trend. Side: Half-empty
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Say you have a full glass sitting in a room, full of water. Eventually the glass will go down due to evaporation and be half empty, as it had formerly been full. Then it will continue to go down, until it is gone. Like life, we start out full of vigor and life and slowly "evaporate" away losing health and sanity. Definitely Half Empty. Side: Half-empty
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I think quantum physicists and metaphysics will say its neither half full nor half empty. They will say everything is pretty much empty space, and that we only perceive things to be solid. There are so many more things we can't see compared to what we can see, but I guess people can argue that if we can't see them, should we even question it? That's probably where science and faith come in to explain the unknown. Gravity cannot be seen, but it's effects can be seen. Side: Half-empty
Well, if you were filling it up and didn't have enough to make it past the halfway point then it would still be half empty because you failed to make sure you had enough to fill it up. It you were pouring it out to empty it and stoped halfway, well, then you only did half the job and hence it is only half empty. Side: Half-empty
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