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"Is the glass half empty or half full?" is a
"Is the glass half empty or half full?" is a proverbial phrase
A proverb (from la, proverbium) is a simple and insightful, traditional saying that expresses a perceived truth based on common sense or experience. Proverbs are often metaphorical and use formulaic language. A proverbial phrase or a proverbial ...
, used rhetorically
Rhetoric () is the Art (skill), art of persuasion, which along with grammar and logic (or dialectic), is one of the Trivium, three ancient arts of discourse. Rhetoric aims to study the techniques writers or speakers utilize to inform, persuad ...
to indicate that a particular situation could be a cause for pessimism
Pessimism is a negative mental attitude in which an undesirable outcome is anticipated from a given situation. Pessimists tend to focus on the negatives of life in general. A common question asked to test for pessimism is "Is the glass half empt ...
(half empty) or optimism
Optimism is an attitude reflecting a belief or hope that the outcome of some specific endeavor, or outcomes in general, will be positive, favorable, and desirable. A common idiom used to illustrate optimism versus pessimism is a glass filled wi ...
(half full), but there are other view points too, like realism (if poured out, half empty; if filled up, half full, but it is only a point of view), or as a litmus test
Litmus test may refer to:
* Litmus test (chemistry), used to determine the acidity of a chemical solution
* Litmus test (politics), a question that seeks to find the character of a potential candidate by measuring a single indicator
* Litmus Test ...
to simply determine an individual's worldview
A worldview or world-view or ''Weltanschauung'' is the fundamental cognitive orientation of an individual or society encompassing the whole of the individual's or society's knowledge, culture, and point of view. A worldview can include natural p ...
. The purpose of the question is to demonstrate that a situation may be seen in different ways depending on one's point of view
Point of view or Points of View may refer to:
Concept and technique
* Point of view (philosophy), an attitude how one sees or thinks of something
* Point of view (literature) or narrative mode, the perspective of the narrative voice; the prono ...
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See also
*Cooperative principle
In social science generally and linguistics specifically, the cooperative principle describes how people achieve effective conversational communication in common social situations—that is, how listeners and speakers act cooperatively and mutual ...
* Cognitive bias in animals Cognitive bias in animals is a pattern of deviation in judgment, whereby inferences about other animals and situations may be affected by irrelevant information or emotional states. It is sometimes said that animals create their own "subjective soci ...
* Framing effects (psychology)
* Framing (social sciences)
In the social sciences, framing comprises a set of concepts and theoretical perspectives on how individuals, groups, and societies organize, perceive, and communicate about reality.
Framing can manifest in thought or interpersonal communicati ...
* Less-is-better effect
The less-is-better effect is a type of preference reversal that occurs when the lesser or smaller alternative of a proposition is preferred when evaluated separately, but not evaluated together. The term was first proposed by Christopher Hsee.
I ...
* List of cognitive biases
Cognitive biases are systematic patterns of deviation from norm and/or rationality in judgment. They are often studied in psychology, sociology and behavioral economics.
Although the reality of most of these biases is confirmed by reproducible ...
* Silver lining (idiom)
A silver lining is a metaphor for optimism in vernacular English, which means a negative occurrence may have a positive aspect to it.
Origin
John Milton coined the phrase 'silver lining' in his poem Comus: A Mask Presented at Ludlow Castle, 163 ...
References
Motivation English-language idioms {{Psychology-stub