Can you choose what you believe?

[Grey Acumen]

fkusumot said:

Grey Acumen said:
You've never made clear what I supposedly denied. So I don't see how I can misrepresent my view on it when my view was "unlikely =/= impossible" and also asking you to clarify what the hell you were talking about.

You changed your view. You originally said:

"Just because you've never been successful doesn't mean it's not possible."

Which is just as true as:

"Just because you've never been successful doesn't mean it's not impossible."

 

I hardly see how that misrepresents my view. As other people have been successful, and if someone has been successful that DOES mean that something is possible, but simply not having been successful does not prove something to be or not be possible. I never stated that nothing is impossible, but in this particular case i am pointing out merely that the state of impossibility has not been proven, whereas possibility has been shown already, i simply didn't raise that issue because the only point I was replying to was the point about the impossibility.

So where exactly does the misrepresentation come in?