If anything's something, can something be anything?

Question

If anything's something, can something be anything?

Answer 1

Yes, if your definition of anything is limitless.  

Answer 2

Anything which is "something" is an "entity," a "cognoscentum," meaning an object of consciousness.

But to turn it around does not work, because that which is a specific "something" such as a hamburg cannot be "anything" because it has a specific nature, and "anything" can be any cognoscentum. A hamburg cannot be a cat.

Answer 3

GREETINGS!  

Yes.  .  .  .  But only within its molecular, cellular and atomic particles category and cross pollination limitations!  

Human may not be a honey Bee or vice-a-versa but each can enjoy each other's production of "foods".  

Interesting!

Have sunny funny smiles for miles!

Best regards,

© 2008. DiamondDave.  SunErgy.

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Answer 4

Yes.

Answer 5

Makes sense to me!! :-)

Answer 6

according to the logic you presented, yes. And again, remember that anything is anything and something is something. Also, anything can be in something, and something can be in anything.

Answer 7

whoa! that's confusing! well they both can mean the same i guess  

Answer 8

haha let's just put it this way, anything that is everything is something which consists of anything..but if something is anything, what is nothing? hmm, does it matter? hmm

Answer 9

even brick wants to be something.

your more than something.

Answer 10

i think you can look at it in two ways.

eg. a book is something but it can't be anything else.

OR

eg. 1=anything=something therefore:

something=anything=1.

Answer 11

No. You're talking english symantics here my friend. Something has more definition than anything, which is why anything can be something. For example, say you're looking at a book, which is missing a page. You can tell what's missing but you don't know how to describe it in any context. Therefore, you would say "Something is missing." But can you also say "Anything is missing"? No, because then that would mean that instead of that one, specific object (being a page) is missing, it could literally be ANY thing (like an elephant, a cell phone, another book in itself. Anything lacks the definition. If you think mathematically, this explanation would go something like anything = 1 and something = 2. 1 < 2  (anything is something) 2 < 1 (something is anything). You can see the last one is wrong. Maybe that just confused you more, but I feel that's adequate explanation. I hope you understood and can see the fallacy of the question!