𞋴𝛂𝛋𝛆@lemmy.world to Asklemmy@lemmy.mlEnglish · 14 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-up114arrow-down12
arrow-up112arrow-down1message-squareHow do you explain the principal of "you cannot prove a negative" to someone that is very weak at abstractions like this?𞋴𝛂𝛋𝛆@lemmy.world to Asklemmy@lemmy.mlEnglish · 14 days agomessage-square22fedilink
minus-squaredrone509@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·14 days agoThe invisible pink unicorn is the traditional atheist approach.
minus-squarexavier666@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up12·14 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”
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”