CalciumDeficiency@lemmy.world to Asklemmy@lemmy.ml · 6 months agoWhat did you get told as a child that you realised was a lie as you got older?message-squaremessage-square303fedilinkarrow-up1217arrow-down15
arrow-up1212arrow-down1message-squareWhat did you get told as a child that you realised was a lie as you got older?CalciumDeficiency@lemmy.world to Asklemmy@lemmy.ml · 6 months agomessage-square303fedilink
minus-squareIsoprenoid@programming.devlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3arrow-down8·6 months ago No, you can’t prove that something never happens or that something doesn’t exist. Science, philosophy, and mathematics say otherwise. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burden_of_proof_(philosophy)#Proving_a_negative https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proof_of_impossibility
minus-squareA_Very_Big_Fan@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·6 months agoThen why did you dodge the request to prove there are no tiny invisible pink elephants in your fridge, wise guy? lmao
minus-squareIsoprenoid@programming.devlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·edit-26 months agoIf you’re claiming my fridge has no tiny invisible pink elephants you are welcome to provide evidence. I will make no claims on the matter and thus have to provide no evidence either way. Edit: I think you’re confusing me for the other guy.
minus-squareA_Very_Big_Fan@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·6 months ago I think you’re confusing me for the other guy. I was, but you’re running defense for him so I think the point still stands. Believing claims on the grounds that they haven’t been disproven is just bad epistemology, and it certainly isn’t good science. Hence the elephants.
minus-squareIsoprenoid@programming.devlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·6 months ago Believing claims on the grounds that they haven’t been disproven is just bad epistemology Well, it’s a good thing that wasn’t my position.
Science, philosophy, and mathematics say otherwise.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burden_of_proof_(philosophy)#Proving_a_negative
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proof_of_impossibility
Then why did you dodge the request to prove there are no tiny invisible pink elephants in your fridge, wise guy? lmao
If you’re claiming my fridge has no tiny invisible pink elephants you are welcome to provide evidence.
I will make no claims on the matter and thus have to provide no evidence either way.
Edit: I think you’re confusing me for the other guy.
I was, but you’re running defense for him so I think the point still stands.
Believing claims on the grounds that they haven’t been disproven is just bad epistemology, and it certainly isn’t good science. Hence the elephants.
Well, it’s a good thing that wasn’t my position.