How to prove a negative; some of you may think this is impossible. Like saying, how do you prove aliens don't exist, or how do you proof unicorns don't exist, or how do you prove something isn't red? You can't prove something isn't something, without proving the entire universe first, right?
Err, wrong. You CAN prove a negative, if you can find an exclusionary property, that means something can't be something else; for instance, matter cannot take up the same space at the same time as any other matter; so, you can prove that nothing else is in an area, by putting something there. or if you find something there. Similarly, if you wanted to prove something was not red, you could simply prove it was green; that something possessed an exclusionary quality which made it impossible to be something else. By green of course, I mean that the wavelength and frequency of photons meets the technical scientific definition for, green, and thus that it cannot possess two wavelengths and frequencies at the same time.
So, in essence, you can prove an apple is not a red apple by proving it was green, I.E. something else that means the apple cannot be two things at once; proving something is a dog, proves that it is in fact, not a cat, and so on and so forth.
And thus, the argument that, "you can't prove a negative", is false.
Take that, logic.
You can see more, at Occam's LAZAH!: http://occamszlazah....0&max-results=3
Edited by Manoka, 01 December 2014 - 11:27 AM.