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Impenitent wrote: ↑Thu Jan 24, 2019 10:58 pm
sure, but you cannot prove a negative...
-Imp
I see.
From wiki: A negative claim is a colloquialism for an affirmative claim that asserts the non-existence or exclusion of something.[10] Saying, "You cannot prove a negative," has been called pseudologicbecause there are many proofs that substantiate negative claims in mathematics, science, and economics including Arrow's impossibility theorem.
Other than the tiresome and unnecessary semantic argument, i.e. the meaning of the words "nothing" and "exist" , there are various ways of reiterating the statement, this being one of the more nonsensical: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RNdl-HIkDqQ