Nothing Is Impossible

**Super Duck** · 03-09-2008 12:48 AM

Well that's a blatant lie. For example:

You can never truthfully say "I am lying!" because if you were telling the truth you would in fact be lying, i.e. not telling the truth. On the other hand, if you were lying then this statement would be false menaing you were not lying and if you weren't lying that would make this statement true, but if the statement was ture then you WOULD be lying, and so on.
Hence, it is IMPOSSIBLE to truthfully say "I am lying!"

Can you guys think of any others?

**Kushna Mufeed** · 03-09-2008 12:55 AM

So, let's correct the statement. Logical fallacies are impossible. But then you look at that and say, "Well, duh." So the statement become pointless.

**Venomblood** · 03-09-2008 02:48 AM

That example has nothing to do with physical possibilities. Is there any case in real life where that would go into effect?

**ExoByte** · 03-09-2008 03:10 AM

If nothing is impossible, its impossible for anything to be impossible.

**wasup** · 03-09-2008 03:27 AM

No shit, semantical arguments and stuff which is by definition impossible... well, it's not big news that it can't happen. People who say this are referring to doing things and the such.

**Soldier** · 03-09-2008 03:30 AM

of course some things arnt possible but the phrase means you can do anything (become president,make a time machine, solve world peace,screw that chick ect.) if you try hard enough.

**ClouD** · 03-09-2008 03:30 AM

Originally Posted by Venomblood

That example has nothing to do with physical possibilities. Is there any case in real life where that would go into effect?

Physics supports travel through time, yet the 'grandfather paradox' applies there.

Nice daily(-ish) situation there eh?

**Venomblood** · 03-09-2008 03:32 AM

Originally Posted by ExoByte

its impossible for anything to be impossible.

Aah! Paradox!

**Grod** · 03-09-2008 07:54 AM

Originally Posted by ClouD

Physics supports travel through time, yet the 'grandfather paradox' applies there.

Nice daily(-ish) situation there eh?

No. The "Grandfather paradox" only applies if you think of time as a single line leading from past to present. When you consider many parallel universes, this never arises.

**Marvo** · 03-09-2008 08:20 AM

Originally Posted by ClouD

Physics supports travel through time, yet the 'grandfather paradox' applies there.

Nice daily(-ish) situation there eh?

What Grod said is true, and also to my knowledge, travelling back in time is impossible.

**Super Duck** · 03-09-2008 08:30 AM

Yeah, OK. Granted, I should have called this thread "Impossibilities" or something then. But I disagree. I think that time travel is possible. Maybe not at this moment in time, I hascen to add, but I think it'll happen one day.

**Xox** · 03-09-2008 09:04 AM

Originally Posted by ExoByte

If nothing is impossible, its impossible for anything to be impossible.

Exactly what I thought when I read that.

**Super Duck** · 03-09-2008 09:19 AM

Originally Posted by ExoByte

If nothing is impossible, its impossible for anything to be impossible.

But if it's impossible for anything to be impossible then it can't be impossible for anthing to be impossible because nothing is impossible. And so on, until you get a headache.

I think that unless something paradoxes itself, it is possible, i.e. there are no physical impossibilities, or at least there won't be when we are advanced enough.

**LucidFlanders** · 03-09-2008 09:56 AM

Nothings impossible, just may seem like it at the time.

**Super Duck** · 03-09-2008 07:48 PM

Can you prove that?

**Bonsay** · 03-09-2008 08:31 PM

What if you are in quantum superposition when you say "I am lying".

**LucidFlanders** · 03-10-2008 08:03 AM

Originally Posted by Super Duck

Can you prove that?

Um, yes. Check out history for instance? i refuse to believe in impossible things, why? we have already proven ALOT of things we "labeled" impossible, and it is now "possible", yet people keep labeling things impossible, which proves they aren't as smart as they think they are to be so blind. Impossible is just a label that has yet to be solved, that is all.

BTW please don't ask to "prove it", that's a TERRIBLE thing to say. I try my best to work my way around that word, because it shows a lack of....well, you know. Conversation ends there, when there are so many ways you can approach it. Trying to prove nothings impossible is, well...you know. Also shows the person has nothing to add to what the other person was saying.

**wasup** · 03-10-2008 10:35 AM

Uh, LucidFLanders, there is a BIG difference between that historical contest of scientific impossibility and actual semantic or mathematical impossibility.

**Xaqaria** · 03-10-2008 10:46 AM

"I'm Lying"

Theory Debunked.

**Universal Mind** · 03-10-2008 11:01 AM

Originally Posted by ExoByte

If nothing is impossible, its impossible for anything to be impossible.

Perhaps nothing is impossible though it is still possible for something to become impossible.

**wasup** · 03-10-2008 11:18 AM

in which case "nothing being possible" is strictly impossible

**Taosaur** · 03-10-2008 05:24 PM

The paradoxes introduced so far are semantic or linguistic, which introduces the following possibility:

*Language allows paradox.
*Nature does not allow paradox.
^ergo: Language does not accurately represent nature.