If you were drinking it its half empty as you were in the act of emptying it and are thus halfway through the action, but if you were filling it it would be half full as you were in the act of filling it and are halfway through the action
There’s always that one nibba who’s like “based off of the shape of the cup the glass is neither half full or empty being that it has slightly less than half a cups worth of water in it. This can be contributed to the glass getting wider towards the top.” -random asshole from my classroom
“There are, it has been said, two types of people in the world. There are those who, when presented with a glass that is exactly half full, say: this glass is half full. And then there are those who say: this glass is half empty.
The world belongs, however, to those who can look at the glass and say: What’s up with this glass? Excuse me? Excuse me? This is my glass? I don’t think so. My glass was full! And it was a bigger glass! Who’s been pinching my beer?
And at the other end of the bar the world is full of the other type of person, who has a broken glass, or a glass that has been carelessly knocked over (usually by one of the people calling for a larger glass) or who had no glass at all, because he was at the back of the crowd and had failed to catch the barman’s eye. ”
― Terry Pratchett, The Truth
Actually there’s a difference. Half full is when you take an empty cup and fill it halfway. Half empty is when you take a full cup and remove (spill/suck) water out of it until it’s half.
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If you were drinking it its half empty as you were in the act of emptying it and are thus halfway through the action, but if you were filling it it would be half full as you were in the act of filling it and are halfway through the action
There’s always that one nibba who’s like “based off of the shape of the cup the glass is neither half full or empty being that it has slightly less than half a cups worth of water in it. This can be contributed to the glass getting wider towards the top.” -random asshole from my classroom
-actually me in the second grade
-I hate kids like that now
Aaaand then there’s me who says “The glass is full, you idiots. It’s filled with 50% liquid and 50% air.”
I’d probably be beaten to death.
Would said well i think both of yall are full of shit
“There are, it has been said, two types of people in the world. There are those who, when presented with a glass that is exactly half full, say: this glass is half full. And then there are those who say: this glass is half empty.
The world belongs, however, to those who can look at the glass and say: What’s up with this glass? Excuse me? Excuse me? This is my glass? I don’t think so. My glass was full! And it was a bigger glass! Who’s been pinching my beer?
And at the other end of the bar the world is full of the other type of person, who has a broken glass, or a glass that has been carelessly knocked over (usually by one of the people calling for a larger glass) or who had no glass at all, because he was at the back of the crowd and had failed to catch the barman’s eye. ”
― Terry Pratchett, The Truth
Well…. that escalated quickly.
hjkhjk
Actually there’s a difference. Half full is when you take an empty cup and fill it halfway. Half empty is when you take a full cup and remove (spill/suck) water out of it until it’s half.
Finally… someone understands!!!
i don’t think that’s how science works.
The question isnt scientific, its philosophical and tes that is how it works