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Yup, negative knowledge is more robust too It only takes seeing one black swan to disprove “all swans are not white” While you can observe 30 or 300 years of
by chubot 3y ago
Yup, negative knowledge is more robust too
It only takes seeing one black swan to disprove “all swans are not white”
While you can observe 30 or 300 years of white swans, and never prove the converse: “all swans are white”
This might sound trivial to some people, until you start hearing “this is a 1 in 10,000 year event” from your banker, 5 times in 50 years
Also related to questions like “Is this airplane going to fall out of the sky?”
- ttctciyf 3y ago> only takes seeing one black swan to disprove “all swans are not white” I think you mean 'disprove "all swans are white"', since a black swan tends to confirm the existence of non-white swans. In other nitpicking news, the title should capitalize the V in Via since Via Negativa is the "Way of Negation", not "by means of Negation" as you might think from the current capitalisation.