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January 30th, 2002, 09:58 PM
#1
Opposites
This is very simple. I'm currently involved in an argument with a friend. And the question is this: Do opposites exist?
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January 30th, 2002, 10:04 PM
#2
Of course opposites exist.
How can that scientific law of:
"Opposites attract"
Be true if there wasn't such a thing as opposites
to be attracting.
Remote_Access_
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January 30th, 2002, 10:08 PM
#3
Originally posted by Remote_Access_
Of course opposites exist.
How can that scientific law of:
"Opposites attract"
Be true if there wasn't such a thing as opposites
to be attracting.
Remote_Access_
Not to be offensive but surely that is the point of the discussion, to test such a theory and not just accept.
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January 30th, 2002, 10:10 PM
#4
How are you defining 'opposites'? The opposite of High might be Low, but it could be sober depending on the context.
What is the context of the conversation?
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January 30th, 2002, 10:14 PM
#5
The context of this is simply, do tangible opposites exist. For example, I tried to suggest that light was the opposite of dark, but I couldn't prove that because I couldn't prove that darkness is exists.
Any interpretation on the subject is fine.
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January 30th, 2002, 10:17 PM
#6
OR, is darkness the absence of light?
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January 30th, 2002, 10:20 PM
#7
Yeah, that too. But I couldn't prove that it was the opposite of light, even with that.
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January 30th, 2002, 10:25 PM
#8
Well, I'm not sure what your friend will require for proof, but, if you take him/her into a room, remove the light (turn off the light), would that not leave him or her in the dark?
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January 30th, 2002, 10:29 PM
#9
Yes, i guess it would. But does that necessarily make it the opposite of having light.
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January 30th, 2002, 10:29 PM
#10
Originally posted by Alcatraz
Yeah, that too. But I couldn't prove that it was the opposite of light, even with that.
If you can't prove that darkness is the opposite of light, then try turning the lights off.
;P
Seriously though, tangible opposites do exist. Complete opposites do not exist (IMO), but that goes onto the whole yin-yang theory of how a wrong can contain some right, and a right can contain some wrong...
If I were you though, I would prove it with electricity or magnets. It is scientific fact that opposite magnetic fields attract, which is along the lines of what Remote_Access_ was talking about earlier.
In truth, it's a philosophical argument that's rather silly. Tangible opposites exist, but not all circumstances or objects have tangible opposites.
Chris Shepherd
The Nelson-Shepherd cutoff: The point at which you realise someone is an idiot while trying to help them.
\"Well as far as the spelling, I speak fluently both your native languages. Do you even can try spell mine ?\" -- Failed Insult
Is your whole family retarded, or did they just catch it from you?
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