@[email protected] to [email protected] • 5 months agoWhat did you get told as a child that you realised was a lie as you got older?message-square313fedilinkarrow-up1219arrow-down14
arrow-up1215arrow-down1message-squareWhat did you get told as a child that you realised was a lie as you got older?@[email protected] to [email protected] • 5 months agomessage-square313fedilink
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish0•5 months agoAre you implying that a negative categorically cannot be proven?
minus-square@IsoprenoidlinkEnglish1•edit-25 months agoNo. A negative can be proven. It’s done all the time in science and mathematics. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burden_of_proof_(philosophy)#Proving_a_negative https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proof_of_impossibility
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish2•5 months agoOk, just verifying that that fallacy wasn’t the crux of your argument
Are you implying that a negative categorically cannot be proven?
No. A negative can be proven. It’s done all the time in science and mathematics.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burden_of_proof_(philosophy)#Proving_a_negative
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proof_of_impossibility
Ok, just verifying that that fallacy wasn’t the crux of your argument