@[email protected] to [email protected] • 1 year agoWhat did you get told as a child that you realised was a lie as you got older?message-square305fedilinkarrow-up1218
arrow-up1218message-squareWhat did you get told as a child that you realised was a lie as you got older?@[email protected] to [email protected] • 1 year agomessage-square305fedilink
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish3•edit-21 year 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•edit-25 months agoOk, just verifying that that fallacy wasn’t the crux of your argument Edit: I have since disavowed this instance
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
Edit: I have since disavowed this instance