@CalciumDeficiency to [email protected] • 7 months agoWhat did you get told as a child that you realised was a lie as you got older?message-square300arrow-up1216arrow-down15
arrow-up1211arrow-down1message-squareWhat did you get told as a child that you realised was a lie as you got older?@CalciumDeficiency to [email protected] • 7 months agomessage-square300
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish1•edit-27 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@SquorlplelinkEnglish2•7 months agoOk, just verifying that that fallacy wasn’t the crux of your argument
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