𞋴𝛂𝛋𝛆 to Asklemmy@lemmy.mlEnglish • 3 months agoHow do you explain the principal of "you cannot prove a negative" to someone that is very weak at abstractions like this?message-square28arrow-up162
arrow-up162message-squareHow do you explain the principal of "you cannot prove a negative" to someone that is very weak at abstractions like this?𞋴𝛂𝛋𝛆 to Asklemmy@lemmy.mlEnglish • 3 months agomessage-square28
minus-square@drone509@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkEnglish39•3 months agoThe invisible pink unicorn is the traditional atheist approach.
minus-square@xavier666@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglish59•3 months 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-squareanarchoflandishlinkfedilinkEnglish1•3 months 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.