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To: Gondring

Thanks. So what is that darn rule about proving negatives?


3,101 posted on 02/17/2005 11:22:59 PM PST by thoughtomator (If Islam is a religion, so is Liberal!)
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To: thoughtomator
Thanks. So what is that darn rule about proving negatives?

hehehe...well, it's a myth, if that's what you're asking. :-) However, one could say that generally it is more difficult to prove negatives without use of certain techniques...but given restrictions, you could make anything difficult. Still, in real world operations, differences such as that between inductive and deductive reasoning can play a big part in feasibility and decision-making.

3,127 posted on 02/18/2005 6:37:08 PM PST by Gondring (They can have my Bill of Rights when they pry it from my cold, dead hands!)
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