Filosaphy Phrom ReUsed

[PK|ReUsed]

I want you to think carefully about this question and explain a little as to why you believe your answer is correct.

[PK|ReUsed]

I believe that if you snapped one stick in half you'd be left with 6 halfs... the 2 halfs of the original stick plus the 2 halfs of each new stick that yolu now have... thats 6 halfs imo.

this is something similar to the glass of water being half empty or half full... I just say that the glass is half empty when EMPTYING the glass and it's half full when you'r FILLING the glass. It's all common sence imo.

[PK|Mojo J-Lo]

I'd belive you'd only have 4 halfs...if you snapped the stick into half the original stick no longer exists so you only have the two halves for eash "Half" of the original stick....otherwise you'd have infinately many halves of infinately many sticks.

[PK|ReUsed]

I'd belive you'd only have 4 halfs...if you snapped the stick into half the original stick no longer exists so you only have the two halves for eash "Half" of the original stick....otherwise you'd have infinately many halves of infinately many sticks.

i disagree... the 2 halfs are of the original stick and the "infinate stick" theory you have include sticks which do not and have not existed... my theory only counts stick halfs of sticks that exist or did exist in order to make additional halfs.

[PK|Lemming]

Id agree with Mojo, mainly due to the syntax and tense inherant in the original question


you used present tense, therefore there can only be 4 halves

2 sticks each with 2 halfves.

[PK|ReUsed]

it is a very logical way you've arrived at the number 4, but i stick with 6.. I believe a stick can be a full stick and half of a deceased stick at heart, thus being both full and half at the same time.

[Dr4GoN[KG]]

well inturn you could say you dont have n e halfs coz as soon as you snap it you have 2 sticks insteead of 1


there is not goin to be a correct answer as the numbers can become near enought endless


my theary is

1 stick snapped becomes 2 sticks (the 2 halfs of the first stick) but how can the be halfs if they have just become 2 new hole sticks??

why is this my answer because because you shouldnt think of the most logical answer look beyond the fisical

[Dr4GoN[KG]]

oh and it philosophy :P

[PK|ReUsed]

']oh and it philosophy :P

I know. and it's physical, not fisical =P. but i thought we were both making jokes. :doom:

[Dr4GoN[KG]]

:p

[Stroudie]

Cant do that Reused. Cant say "I want you to explain a little" in a question with no real correct answer then yell at the guy who differs from you.


I agree with your half full half empty philosphies. I agree when filling its half full and when youve drunk a bit its half empty.

But im gonna have to be boring and say you dont have any halfs, you hvae 2 sticks. if every twig was a certain length, and you broke it in half. You would have half a twig. But otherwise theres no precise length of a twig so you cannot call a half without having a uniform stick length. If you broke a metre stick in half. Youd have half a metre stick. but its still a stick.

does that make sense?



Someone shoot me if i ever get philosophical again. With a deagle. In the head.

[JoMo]

yeh but any twig is made up of 2 halves. Im saying 2 though, in the question yuo defined the object we're snapping as "a stick" therefore something different cannot be this stick therefore you have 2 half sticks as the smaller halfs dont count as sticks.

or my other theory of 7 sticks that we take the 2 halves of the 2 sticks, the 2 halves we have now and another half which is these 2 halves stuck together because the original stick was a bigger stick snapped in the past.

[PK|Argaf]

I'm opting for 0 - cos once you break the stick in half - you have two new sticks (1/2 the size of the original stick) but still new.

[PK|Cerro]

wow, who'd have thought we'd get so deep into discussion over a question that cannot possibly be answered? Mojo and lemming are right, the best way to answer it is from the question which is present tense, so i'd say 4. Correct argaf you've got two new sticks, but those sticks can be halved - hence 4. Well you could take that a step further and break the sticks again and again making smaller pieces with more halves due to the many whole sticks...

hmmm 4 or 4 million? still when you cant give one correct answer just stick to the question.

[NiTrOuS]

lol after all of this discussion about a stick, i decieded to kill it and vote 0. :P

[PK|ReUsed]

Stroudie - im not yelling at people, im just arguing my point. that's what philosaphy is about dude. =P...

[PK|Hexx]

0 because if u snap a stick in half you now have 2 sticks, and no halves

[PK|Hexx]

wow, who'd have thought we'd get so deep into discussion over a question that cannot possibly be answered? Mojo and lemming are right, the best way to answer it is from the question which is present tense, so i'd say 4. Correct argaf you've got two new sticks, but those sticks can be halved - hence 4. Well you could take that a step further and break the sticks again and again making smaller pieces with more halves due to the many whole sticks...

hmmm 4 or 4 million? still when you cant give one correct answer just stick to the question.

no cerro those 2 sticks arent 4 halves because they havent been snapped have they, plus if you snappeed those 2 sticks in half you would then have 4 sticks and not halves

[PK|Cerro]

but then you can never have a half of anything. So if what you say is true, then there is no such thing as a half! Semantics if you ask me...

[Dr4GoN[KG]]

lol i said it first a he gets all the praise i dont now whats it all comin 2

[PK|Hexx]

but then you can never have a half of anything. So if what you say is true, then there is no such thing as a half! Semantics if you ask me...

EXACTLY, which is why i voted 0 :D