What's the difference between a glass of water that's half empty and one that's half full?

[owotrucked]

They are both wrong. The glass is always full, it's just that half happens to be filled with air, which is as relevant as me during parties.

 

[Fox-Trot-9]

The cup is too big. Get a smaller cup and fill it with the same amount of water, and it will be completely full.

 

[Ymadthepirate]

Give me the glass so I can drink it

 

[Representing_Tromba]

Okay.

1) A goose fills the glass to half then leaves the room

2) A duck enters the room, fill the glass to full then empties it to half then leaves the room

3) The cup sits out overnight

4) The goose and duck enter the room at the same time the next day

Is the glass half empty, or half full?

This is where it gets a little tricky. Since the duck emptied it to half it is technically half empty because that was the last thing to happen but the goose remembers filling it halfway. To the goose, it's half full though because he filled it up halfway. The difficult part about this is that it sat out overnight which means that unless if goose and duck were desperate then they would probably dump it out, making it just an empty glass. Thus, the glass is half empty but to a certain point of view, it is half full and it doesn't matter because it will probably be empty soon.

 

[Deeprotsorcerer]

This is where it gets a little tricky. Since the duck emptied it to half it is technically half empty because that was the last thing to happen but the goose remembers filling it halfway. To the goose, it's half full though because he filled it up halfway. The difficult part about this is that it sat out overnight which means that unless if goose and duck were desperate then they would probably dump it out, making it just an empty glass. Thus, the glass is half empty but to a certain point of view, it is half full and it doesn't matter because it will probably be empty soon.

The hunter that blasts both critters in the middle of the woods won't know what the hell they were quaking and honking at each other for, but he'll have a story to tell his/her kids at the dinner table.

 

[Representing_Tromba]

The hunter that blasts both critters in the middle of the woods won't know what the hell they were quaking and honking at each other for, but he'll have a story to tell his/her kids at the dinner table.

I thought they were in a room? Guess it doesn't matter though. Food is food.

 

[Deeprotsorcerer]

I thought they were in a room? Guess it doesn't matter though. Food is food.

True that. It's a room/floor that's a forest in a litrpg dungeon then. Which probably means that the OP MC or dungeoncore MC is wondering how the table, water, duck, and hunter got there, but eats them all for the exp anyways while stiffly ignoring the ethical implications of killing three sapient beings unprovoked.

 

[Plantorsomething]

context; if it was empty before, half full. Full before, half empty. Gets more complicated but yea

 

[Kenjona]

The glass is actually full. It is only filled to the half way point with a substance you can see. Unless your talking theoretical physics and this is occurring in a theoretical complete void space.

 

[SternenklarenRitter]

They are set on the counter next to each other for easy comparison, so 10 cm.

 

[SsemouyOnan]

All wrong. I hid my cocaine in the other one.

 

[RavenRunes]

Do you people not have books to write!?

 

[PeacefulMyst]

upon careful consideration, i think the answer is carefully