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To: Pahuanui
It is impossible to prove a negative

Tripe. Cliche. Read a little book called How We Know What Isn't So.

38 posted on 01/04/2004 6:37:48 PM PST by firebrand
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To: firebrand
It is impossible to prove a negative

Tripe. Cliche. Read a little book called How We Know What Isn't So.

No, what's tripe is the assertion that that book, which I've read, has anything at all to do with the formal rules of logic, which were established manifold centuries ago and are still valid. It doesn't.

Proving a negative is impossible, by its very nature.

You are mixing apples and oranges.

39 posted on 01/04/2004 7:28:18 PM PST by Pahuanui (When a foolish man hears of the Tao, he laughs out loud)
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