Is Water Wet?

[SlimShady'sSpaceForce]

3 years later...
 

 

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[Nextmanup]

On 9/8/2018 at 10:44 AM, ExiledInIllinois said:

If a tree falls in the forest and nobody (or nothing, device, etc...) is there, does it make a sound?

Depends on how you define "make a sound."
 

As soon as you define terms, this riddle isn't so perplexing.

 

If "makes a sound" means sending reverberated energy waves through the ground and air away from the fallen tree, then  yes, it "makes a sound" even if nothing else is out there.

 

If "makes a sound" means sending reverberated energy waves through the ground and air AND THEN being received by some intelligent life with a brain capable of interpreting the energy into a signal, then no, the tree doesn't "make a sound" because nothing is out there to receive/interpret the energy being emitted by the fallen tree.

 

Gotta define terms.

 

 

 

[BuffaloBill]

On 9/8/2018 at 11:51 AM, WhoTom said:

 

If a man speaks in the forest and there's no woman there to hear him, is he still wrong?

 

(Credit: Tom and Ray from Car Talk. And their answer was "Yes.")

 

 

When you are wrong - you’re wrong

when you are right - you’re wrong

as a matter of fact, when you are right, you’re more wrong than if you had just been wrong in the first place