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[Joeviocoe]

BSFusion2 wrote:

….Can you provide a reference stating _______ cannot _________?

= formula for logic flaw.

You are asking someone to prove a negative. It is up to you to prove the affirmative.

His ‘logic’ would fasely imply that the statement “prime numbers greater than 3 cannot be diveded evenly (whole number) by 3” is unprovable.

Alex Pollard wrote: Can you provide a reference stating such a particle cannot induce cancer?

I haven’t said that you “Cannot prove a negative”… Mathematics is full of negative proofs.
But this is NOT an easily quantified mathematical question where we have already defined all attributes of a prime number.
The question was about what can induce cancer. We didn’t invent cancer like we’ve invented mathematical constructs like prime numbers. We don’t know every possible attribute in the world of physics or biology, like we do mathematics.

More importantly, this statement was said just to turn the burden of proof around on someone else because Alex could not prove the positive.
When someone asks to prove the argument’s negative,… it generally means they’ve run out of rational points, and are looking to pass the responsibility of evidence. This is convenient because it allows them to declare “winner by default”.
THAT is the logical flaw that I pointed out.