# Can a negative ever be proven?

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [December 13, 2000, 1:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-a-negative-ever-be-proven/45277 "2000-12-13T01:43:23Z")\
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**Author:** ![Pnuk\_Guy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7ba0ec/32.png) [@Pnuk\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pnuk_Guy)\
**Post date:** [December 19, 2000, 3:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-a-negative-ever-be-proven/45277/21 "2000-12-19T15:01:38Z")

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> \*Originally posted by DRS \*  
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> “you can’t prove a negative” \*\*

Actually this statement is a negative and therefore can’t be proven, unless you **can** prove a negative, which means that this statement is false, but that means that…

oooh…my head hurts.

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