yet some young people will say that the apple is partly floating and partly sinking of the illustration of the stone dropped into water showed one of the stone partly above the surface then the logic of this view could be that some of the stone are sinking but that one is floating
consider the person under the water looking at fish
is the person floating
if our concept of floating is that something is to be above the surface of the water
then he answer is no
if we know that an apple pushed under water will bob up again when we release it we may decide that floating can be submerged temporarily