Bored, and lazy too so I'll keep it short, don't mind this too much. How do you know something is the opposite of another thing? I always thought that the opposite of love is hate, but then one day I saw another claim that the opposite of love is indifferent. If considering from both the perspective of one kind of feeling to another (love-hate), and to have with to not have (feeling) at all, I guess both will make senses in one way or another. So how do you determine the opposite of one thing from another? Feel free to post what you think or believe to be the opposite of each other. Whether or not to provide a reason why is up to you. Again I'm just bored so don't take this too seriously. opposite of gray is...?
Gray is opposite of silver... which is not really an opposite. If through one perspective it's easy though. But if counting many perspective, it's hard. Also, do lust also opposite of love?
When we say opposite, are we talking diametrically opposite? Or more like an antonym? That is the difference, I think...
If the opposite of love is apathy, is the opposite of hate not also apathy? How about the opposite of envy? The opposite of lust? The opposite of anger? Saying "the opposite of love isn't hate, it's apathy" isn't much different from believing apathy to be the "opposite" of any feelings you might have towards another person, and while that might be true, in a way, it's also a little too.. generalized. Apathy might be the opposite of all feelings, but every feeling has its own specific opposite - love, for example, has hate. Neither is wrong -- Apathy is an opposite to love, yes, but so is hate.
Oh, and about the gray thing... In terms of light, I'd say the overall opposite is the absence of light, since gray would indicate a weak presence of light. It's hard to say there's a more specific opposite, though. The same goes for color pigment: in that case gray is technically the presence of all colors, as a shade of black. White, being the absence of all colors, would be the overall opposite of gray. Imo. I'm sure everyone else has their own opinion on that one. I'm also pretty sure there's a more specific opposite that I personally just have a hard time conceiving. Maybe if I actually understood color theory, huh? Y'know, I have a good link for that somewhere... lessee.. Oh, here. http://www.byronc.com/art_color.shtml
Not necessarily. Feelings encompass the gamut of emotions, including, but not limited to, love and hate. One is said to be indifferent when one is uncaring/apathetic. So comparing/contrasting love to indifference is like weighing a part against a whole. Rather, it is concerned/caring (or something along those lines) which should be the opposite of indifferent.
So either way you're still mad I'm not sure, because lust and love seem kinda related no? They both can either exist with or without the other, so probably they can't be considered as opposites. I'm unable to discern the differences. Most of the examples I can currently think of right now lead to the same thing, but since there are different words to describe the two thing should there be a different somewhere? And I thought those wondering about these things was so limited you'd almost never encounter one except in special situations
Okay so my current 'I-should-probably-just-go-to-sleep' theory on the gray thing is that gray is a mix of black, or all colors, and white, or colorless, molecules, right? So if we suuuuper simplify that, we'd get something like this, right? Now what do you consider the direct opposite of this? To me, it'd be: To us, it'd look completely the same, but it'd be structured completely the opposite on a molecular level! Does that make sense? Err. The direct opposite of gray is gray, in other words. ... Okay I'll just go to bed...
imagine many ropes that attached to different poles, which make each pole attach to each end of the rope. Here's the answer to the question, if you pick pole A which there're three rope attached, B, C, and D. this make B, C, and D opposite of A. There's no absolute opposite. Even there's one, this still applied where both ends of the rope can meet anyway.
Your example make me think of reflection. Take mirror for example, everything we see reflected in the mirror looked completely the same as us. Now ignoring how reflection works if you’re one of the few that actually know about it, wouldn’t whatever inside the mirror be the opposite of whatever it reflected? Not the best thing to think about when I just woke up... guess I’ll go wash my face