opaqueice;131898 Wrote: > Anyway, please see the links from that google search - some of them are > pretty good.
Here's the best one, IMO: http://zhurnal.net/ww/zw?ProofNegative The point is that some hypotheses can be easily proven or disproved. One of the examples I read in one of those links is "There are no cats in this box." That is easily provable. Just open the box and see if there are cats are not. The other example, "There are no such things as unicorns." That is impossible to prove unless you identified every living creature in the universe and showed that none of them are unicorns. You can falsify any hypothesis with one counterexample. You can only prove a negative when you enumerate *every* counterexample. Sometimes, that *is* possible. Most of the time it's not. You need to be able to know when it is not, and that is why we often say, "You can't prove a negative." In a practical sense, that's often true. If you are a scientist, as you purport to be, you should have come to this realization long ago. -- ezkcdude SB3->Derek Shek TDA1543/CS8412 NOS DAC->MIT Terminator 2 interconnects->Endler Audio 24-step Attenuators (RCA-direct)->Parasound Halo A23 125W/ch amplifier->Speltz anti-cables->DIY 2-ways + Dayton Titanic 10" subwoofer He's not hi-fi, he's my stereo. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ezkcdude's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2545 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=26436 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
