How would a deaf person have sounds inside their heads? All I have unless I'm directly hearing a sound are memories of sounds. A deaf person (from birth) would have no memory of sound, and thus would have no concept of sound.
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But isn't such a belief rather unnecessary? Wouldn't you just randomly pic an opposite which is of no use to any sort of categorizing. And also how weak does a tree have to be to be the opposite of a supposedly "strong" tree?
If you use such a definition of the word "opposite" you can basically just throw the word in the trash anyways, cause in the end you can define everything as the opposite of everything else, and no one is helped. What about really useful opposites though? Action and reaction? Basically true physical opposites? Don't you take away from them if you say the opposite of a TV is a book?
Opposite depends on the way you are analyzing the situation. There are no absolute opposites.
Zero can be opposite to infinite if you are analyzing quantities of things. For example zero is when you have none, and infinite is the total opposite. If you didn´t like the word "infinite" then use the word "many" if you want. There is no difference.
I can be the opposite of you if you are analyzing "the degree of which someone is me" for example. I am me, and everyone else are not me. Its very simple.
There are physical descriptions as in a dictionary, made by man to understand, and then there is the more open possibilities not made in mans image.............
I think the majority of the people in here are missing the point. Of course not all words have opposites. Or things people have invented. But the basics have opposites. Good/evil, life/death, love/hate, male/female, light/dark. Everything that is life has an opposite or it would cease to exist. But basicly every word that means something has an opposite. Happy/sad, hungry/full, fat/skinny - things that involve life =)
I think you mean that every action has an equal and opposite reaction. I dont believe that the topic of the thread was questioning whether or not if actions have ooposite reactions
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How about 'one is the opposite of the other if it cancels it'. Something like matter and antimatter which has exactly opposite properties, disappear when combined.... Well, Math too.... -5+5=0
So anything that can result into 0 when combined is the opposite of each other?
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