Deep Blue Marine (DPBE)

[Brett-Maverick]

With all due respect Scambuster: ;o]

As my ol' pappy Maverick and my brother Bart used to say:
"The philosophy or idea that you cannot prove a negative is full of negative holes." The idea is not really axiomatic. May I explain:

A person could in fact prove a naive assumption that DB might not be diving by going to DR to the dock, follow the boat for several days or weeks, etc. That would be more than sufficient proof of a negative. That makes "1". Continuing....

Police officers every day, thousands of times per day, prove that this or that person whom they run a computer check on, is not a wanted, or convicted, felon. It is easy to track recent history of felons. That makes "2" negatives which could be proved.

The philosophy that you cannot prove a negative, I have just proven is not true. That makes "3" negatives proved or which could be proved.

Not only is 2 + 2 = 4, but -2 + -2 = -4. That makes "4" negatives proved or which could be proved.

The idea that you cannot prove a negative is only difficult in certain contexts and circumstances, but such idea is not impossible, which word, "impossible" is itself a superlative -- in other words, how would you prove that something is "not" impossible? "Some" things would be so problematic to prove "not" impossible that once upon a time a philosopher eroneously concluded that "you cannot prove a negative". You, see, this is where and how the false axiom got started that you cannot prove a negative. Often times you can.

chow,