Of Course You Can Prove a Negative
Confident pronouncements that "you can't prove a negative" have been all over the internet for as long as I can remember. But there's a reason you'll never find any such claim in a logic textbook.
Note: I’ll be chatting (a little bit) about this essay and (a lot) about last week’s essay with Stefan Bertram-Lee this afternoon on the This is Revolution podcast. That’ll be happening at 4 PM East Coast/1 PM West Coast. You can watch it there or cross-streamed to GTAA. Oh, and to sign up for the Proudhon/Marx class we’ll be talking about as part of th…