What does the phrase “you can’t prove a negative” actually mean?
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Imagine you order something online and it doesn’t arrive. So you send a complaint to the site and they ask you for a photo as proof
What would the proof even be? Nothing, because you can’t really prove a negative. The only way to prove a negative is to prove a positive that directly contradicts it
You can prove that ‘this mug isn’t green’ by proving the positive that it is in fact red
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