Does water run in one direction down hill or uphill? Which is true? Or are both true?

Question

This is a logical test. Answer the question choose your answer and explain why you answered that way using your logic.

Answer 1

I now believe EVERYTHING is relative - there are no constants.

For someone in anti-matter world, standing at bottom of river, water would be going up the hill.

Or, someone traveling alongside the water flow at same speed, water would be static, wouldn't it?

Answer 2

Water Running Uphill

Answer 3

If this is a test, as you say, "of belief, openness of logic, closed minded and what really happens and how different things are perceived," then you need to be aware of the Law of Contradiction, which states that a thing cannot be one thing, and another, both at the same time and in the same respect.



The Law of Identity say that water, like electricity, flows in the direction of least resistance. That would be downhill for water. If wish to introduce wind into the situation, it is possible for wind to change the flow of water--but uphill?



"Does fire burn always?" No, it burns only until that which it can consume is consumed, then it dies.



To admit that a thing is possible is not logical WHEN one of the rules of deduction has been broken to get to that admission. Logic is rigorous in its rules: 256 forms of syllogism exist, yet only 15 are 'valid' and 'valid' doesn't mean 'true'--it means what you are trying to get to--that there is a possibility.



But when you take logic to the next step and seek 'soundness', only one answer can be what you seek, in the sense and the at the time you mean it. ('Time', here, is meant as 'during the path of least resistance' or 'during a hurricane' or 'when the earth turns upside down, but this would mean water was still flowing 'down'.)

Answer 4

Get a bottle. Make a hole on the bottom and attach a U shaped pipe you can see through to it. Fill the bottle and you'll see the water go UP the pipe. Water going uphill ain't that illogical and certainly not a matter of belief.

On the fire thingy... well, fire has a triangle of 3 things it needs in order to burn: something that burns, heat and oxygen. Take one away and you put it out. So, no, fire doesn't always burn.

Answer 5

Water in liquid form, only runs downhill. There are some optical allusions that can make water appear to run uphill, but water will only run downhill. As the Plumbers saying goes;



Water runs downhill,

Don't lick your fingers,

and pay day is on Friday.



However, if the water is heated into a gas form, it'll go uphill. So it can be both.

Answer 6

Considering only the physical world as perceived by a physical body, water flows downhill.

If you totally divorce yourself from the physical, you recognize the physical is always a creation and that creation follows the rules of the physical universe which is the creation.

You can view it as you wish, but it still behaves the same way because the water must follow the rules of the physical universe.

Answer 7

Water could flow up hill if it had sufficient momentum (or volume increase) behind it. After all, water flows uphill every time there's a flood. A continuous flow up hill isn't really practical though.

Answer 8

"Does water run in one direction down hill or uphill?"



Not a well-phrased question. It can't be both, since "ONE DIRECTION down hill" is mutually exclusive of "uphill".



If you said "Does water run down hill, uphill or both?" then the answer is both, because water can go against gravity, depending on the situation, if you throw it for example or if you let it rise up a capillary tube. But the use of the words "run" and "uphill" are problematic since I think you are using them metaphorically.

Answer 9

well, seeing as how gravity should be in effect, the logical answer should be downhill...