Thread: Nothing Is Impossible

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?

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.

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

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

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.

Originally Posted by ExoByte

its impossible for anything to be impossible.

Aah! Paradox!

Originally Posted by ExoByte

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

Exactly what I thought when I read that.

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.

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

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.

in which case "nothing being possible" is strictly impossible

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?

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.

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.

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.

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.