ezkcdude;131948 Wrote: > Here's the best one, IMO: > http://zhurnal.net/ww/zw?ProofNegative > > The point is that some hypotheses can be easily proven or disproved. > One of the examples I read in one of those links is "There are no cats > in this box." That is easily provable. Just open the box and see if > there are cats are not. The other example, "There are no such things as > unicorns." That is impossible to prove unless you identified every > living creature in the universe and showed that none of them are > unicorns. You can falsify any hypothesis with one counterexample. You > can only prove a negative when you enumerate *every* counterexample. > Sometimes, that *is* possible. Most of the time it's not. You need to > be able to know when it is not, and that is why we often say, "You > can't prove a negative." In a practical sense, that's often true. If > you are a scientist, as you purport to be, you should have come to this > realization long ago.
Why don't you even read all posts clarifying what this is about? This is NOT about proving a negative. -- P Floding ------------------------------------------------------------------------ P Floding's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2932 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=26436 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
