Comment on UK wants to weasel out of demand for Apple encryption back door
testfactor@lemmy.world 18 hours agoEven in your made up scenario it doesn’t prove the negative. Maybe your mind reading didn’t work because Apple has a mind wiping device that made them forget. Maybe the crystal ball didn’t work because Apple made an even more powerful “crystal ball blocking” device. You can’t prove that’s not what’s really happening.
So no, you in fact can’t prove a negative.
rottingleaf@lemmy.world 17 hours ago
With that additional detail in possibilities it’s also not possible to ever fully prove a positive.
My example was with an assumption that you have the full information. Hypothetically.