j4k3@lemmy.world to Asklemmy@lemmy.mlEnglish · 2 days agoHow do you explain the principal of "you cannot prove a negative" to someone that is very weak at abstractions like this?message-squaremessage-square22fedilinkarrow-up152arrow-down17
arrow-up145arrow-down1message-squareHow do you explain the principal of "you cannot prove a negative" to someone that is very weak at abstractions like this?j4k3@lemmy.world to Asklemmy@lemmy.mlEnglish · 2 days agomessage-square22fedilink
minus-squaredrone509@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up36·2 days agoThe invisible pink unicorn is the traditional atheist approach.
minus-squarexavier666@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up54arrow-down1·2 days agotl;dr for others A: “I have an Pink Unicorn inside the trunk of my car. It vanishes the moment you try to open the trunk or look at it.” B: “What? That’s absurd” A: “I know it exists. It’s up to you to disprove it” B: “But there is no way one can capture/observe/understand it with any sort of scientific instrument” A: “Don’t care. Skill issue”
minus-squareanarchoflandish@lemmygrad.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 day agoJokes on you. I drive a wrangler. No trunk.
The invisible pink unicorn is the traditional atheist approach.
tl;dr for others
A: “I have an Pink Unicorn inside the trunk of my car. It vanishes the moment you try to open the trunk or look at it.”
B: “What? That’s absurd”
A: “I know it exists. It’s up to you to disprove it”
B: “But there is no way one can capture/observe/understand it with any sort of scientific instrument”
A: “Don’t care. Skill issue”
Jokes on you. I drive a wrangler. No trunk.