Is it possible to be the same as and different from everyone else simultaneously?

[Sixgunsound]

I would love to see the mental gymnastics requirements if anybody wants to make a serious attempt at a logical proof that you can be a and -a simultaneously.

[dynamicyandere]

I mean, it just depends on perspective and the context.


Just look at a Venn Diagram.


Between all people, there will be similarities and differences.


Similarities will overlap, differences will not.


People will be the same where things overlap.


People will be different where things don’t overlap.


Even 2 identical clones of the same person with the same personality can be considered different, as long as the CONTEXT allows it.


They can have different thoughts at different times for example. They can make different choices along their respective timelines. They can be sensing different things around them at different times.


So if something is viewed in a different context, as in something is the same in one context and different in another context.


Then, that thing can be both the same and different.


(Depending on the context.)


Now, what’s impossible is for something to be the SAME while also DIFFERENT when it is spoken of in the EXACT same context and premise.


That’s when we’ll hit an unavoidable impossibility.

[Anonymous]

I don’t get what you’re asking

[Sixgunsound]

It's not a trick question can you be a and not a simultaneously

[SaoirseS]

Lol of course it is.