Few-Opportunity-5196 OP t1_ja3hgv6 wrote
Reply to comment by 254LEX in All the drinking glasses in the world are technically always full and have never been anything less than full. by Few-Opportunity-5196
Touché my friend!
However... Having no empty space", you yourself posted as being full too?
But agree to an extent as well with your argument. Which would also mean that they're never full because most things can be compressed under extreme pressure. For example in a black hole...
254LEX t1_ja3oi26 wrote
That's the thing about semantic arguments; no one is ever right because definitions aren't rigorous. Words mean only what they are understood to mean, and a glass full of air is understood to be empty.
Throwaweigh40 t1_ja3ouh0 wrote
When you breathe in, are your lungs full?
254LEX t1_ja3pd81 wrote
Yes, because lungs are meant to hold 1 atm air. Glasses are meant to hold liquid.
Throwaweigh40 t1_ja3ruh4 wrote
You can put anything you want in glasses. Pens, food, toenail clippings
WildJackall t1_ja4e8r2 wrote
Reminds of when I argued that a hole is only a hole if it goes all the way through
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