How would anyone prove that something is impossible without knowing all there is to know about that 'something'?
If you knew all there is to know about something you would have to know all there is to know about everything else because of the way things are 'connected' or 'associated'.
I think anything is possible because it can't be proven that anything is impossible. hey r6.. how would you prove that 00 is not equal to 000 to a being that can't count? the devil is in the detail. before you can prove anything you have to make assumptions. I think it's safe to assume that "anything is possible" does not have to be proven and anything can be possible because it cannot be proven otherwise..
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Marsh8472 wrote:
As I understand it, committing a fallacy opens up the possibility of being wrong. Why is it not rational to admit that logic might be wrong then? Then anything is possible, BOOM, then we're done here.
This is something I believe and it's kind of what I'm trying to say. I guess reality is a slippery beast and nothing really exists anyway?
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Can anyone help me get my head around this?
Is it possible that anything is possible if it is impossible to prove that anything is impossible?
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If you prove something is impossible then "anything is possible"must be false,
but if it's impossible to prove that same something is impossible then "anything is possible"must still be false.
i just think that little mental exercise exposes the limitations of logic though,
I mean it can not be proven that it can not be proven that it can not be proven that it can not be proven... and so forth and so on..
I suppose it's impossible to prove that "anything is possible" is impossible to prove?
I swear logic is flawed and anything is possible!
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Please... Is it impossible that logic is not flawed? I never said nothing is impossible, I just believe that anything is possible and I can't comprehend any proof that it is not possible.
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ThamiorTheThinker wrote:Okay, BelieveNothing, I need to clear up some confusion....
....My question becomes, then: what's your point? You haven't extrapolated some extra concept from this. You're just making a claim about the contingency of physical reality and then leaving the point in the air. Was there something else you wanted to add? I'm not seeing where you're going with this post, it's rather like a dead-end if you ask me.
The point as Rr6 explained earlier is that we are making an effort to find some 'truth'..
I personally don't believe in absolute truths but prefer to accept things as 'possible'.
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If nothing else came from this post then at least I was trying to explore alternative perceptions.. If one person who refused to believe "anything is possible" begins to question his/her disbelief after reading from this then I believe that's an achievement worth striving for and working on!
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Can anything be proven? It must be possible that things can be proven because anything is possible, but is it true that things can be proven? I suspect logic is flawed beyond reconciliation.
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In any case when the answer to a question is unknown, any meaningful answer could be possible because no contrary answer has been proven, or in some cases multiple answers are equally possible. The things we don't know vastly outnumber the things we do know and in the context of the vast unknown anything is possible. Just because a question can't be answered yet doesn't mean we should invalidate any attempt to answer it, true false or otherwise. Also just because a question can't be answered yet shouldn't stop it from being asked..
If only for the sake of speculation "anything is possible".
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A question for any 'logic boffins' out there.. If it is true that everything is connected (and by everything I am referring to an infinite set of possible observations) then does it follow that everything must be surrounded? With no recognizable boundaries, nothing would be at any extreme position. Could you add a one in-front of an infinite number of zeros to represent how many things are possible without being aware that an infinite number of zeros precedes the one and the truth is surrounded? All of this is speculation of course, I don't even know if there is such a thing as an infinite set of possible observations. I can't prove that there isn't one though either
Reality is not all in your mind.