(April 13, 2012 at 2:48 pm)Norfolk And Chance Wrote:Quote:Lots of people think you can't prove a negative but popularity doesn't make the saying true. A negative can easily be proven. For example, the statement 2 + 2 = 5 is made and here is a small proof that it is false. You have 2 rocks in your left hand you throw on a table in front of you. You have another 2 rocks in your right hand you also throw on the table in front of you. The table does not hold 5 rocks therefore the statement that 2 + 2 = 5 is proven false.
Aha, a simple proof of a simple fact, namely that 2+2=4. Just for a laugh, go and post it in the philosophy section and watch the buttmunches try and babble their way around it.
OR if you don't have all your facts (variables) upfront, then 2+2=5 is true if by an error by ommission. the table holds 5 rocks because there was already one on it when you started throwing yours onto it. not looking at all the facts is how theists conveniently explain things in gaps.
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