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Oh. You mean prove a negative??? FAIL!!!Show me ACTUAL EVIDENCE that Humpty Dumpty didn't actually occur as written.
And I mean SPECIFIC evidence of non-occurrence.
And don't give me that "you-cant-prove-a-negative hype" until you show it's a negative in the first place.
This should be interesting; as you don't know:
Science is myopic.
- who he was
- who the king was
- any of the king's horses or men
- what kingdom he represented
- what wall he sat on
- anything
Show me it's a negative first.Oh. You mean prove a negative??? FAIL!!!
Believe me ... science earns that adjective.
If science can't do this ...
2 Kings 6:17 And Elisha prayed, and said, LORD, I pray thee, open his eyes, that he may see. And the LORD opened the eyes of the young man; and he saw: and, behold, the mountain was full of horses and chariots of fire round about Elisha.
... science is myopic.
It's a riddle about an egg. There may well have been an egg that fell off a wall - more than one, in fact. I don't know that anyone has argued that all the king's horses and all the king's men could put a smashed egg back together again but I sincerely doubt that they tried.
Show me ACTUAL EVIDENCE that Humpty Dumpty didn't actually occur as written.
And I mean SPECIFIC evidence of non-occurrence.
And don't give me that "you-cant-prove-a-negative hype" until you show it's a negative in the first place.
This should be interesting; as you don't know:
Science is myopic.
- who he was
- who the king was
- any of the king's horses or men
- what kingdom he represented
- what wall he sat on
- anything
That's how riddles work.Incidentally, there's nothing in the story that indicates he was an egg -- that's just an assumption.
Then you can't show me evidence it didn't, can you?Suppose it did occur?
Then you can't show me evidence it didn't, can you?
Crickets....But I can -- I can offer you expert testimony; my own.
You see, AV, I happen to be a descendant of Richard III, and the fact that the nursery rhyme was an analogy about my ancestor has been passed down through my family for generations.
You do accept eyewitness testimony, don't you AV? or do you change your tune the moment it becomes inconvenient?
You mean from Katherine Elwes Thomas, who started that rumor?You do accept eyewitness testimony, don't you AV?
No -- science is myopic.Can you prove it was just a rumor?
You're most welcome.That's all I needed to know. Thanks for playing!
No -- science is myopic.
You mean from Katherine Elwes Thomas, who started that rumor?
No -- science is myopic.
Re: you cant prove a negative.
A question:
If you can show "e" (evolution is real) then AFAIK you can also prove "- (-e)"...
... that the double negation of evolution true (ie its not the case that evolution doesn't happen). But the latter seems to be a negative claim i.e. "not (-e)" - yet its derived deductively from a positive claim.
So as every provable positive claim can be restated as a double negation of itself, then.... we'll... you tell me... what's with you cant prove a negative???
Likewise the negative claim "humpty didn't exist" i.e. that "-h" is true can be restated as a positive claim that "h" is false.
Untestability doesn't show impossibility btw.
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