What does the phrase “you can’t prove a negative” actually mean?
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Let’s say we’re sitting in a restaurant and you get up to go to the bathroom. You’re gone for one minute, and then you return.
When you sit down, I ask you to prove to me that you *didn’t* drop down and do pushups in there before coming back out.
That would be proving a negative. There is no evidence you can provide to me that *proves* you did **not** do pushups in the bathroom.
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