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In court? By calling a credible witness, perhaps an expert, who says “X isn’t occurring.”
by sjy 6y ago
In court? By calling a credible witness, perhaps an expert, who says “X isn’t occurring.”
- yibg 6y agoYea but you can’t prove it’s not occurring. All you can show is lack of evidence that it is occurring.
- sjy 6y agoAbsence of evidence is not evidence of absence, but evidence of absence does exist. “Claiming that it is impossible to prove a negative is a pseudologic, because there are many proofs that substantiate negative claims”: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evidence_of_absence https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evidence_of_absence