• PeggyLouBaldwin@lemmy.world
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    1 month ago

    you can’t prove a negative, but a positive claim has been offered here. so the person putting forward the claim must support it, as a claim made without evidence can be dismissed without evidence.

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      1 month ago

      You absolutely can prove a negative, actually.

      The very assertion that a negative claim can’t be proven is itself a negative claim, to frame it another way. Though that claim is unproven as it would be a paradox to be otherwise.